{"id":262660,"date":"2026-06-11T00:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262660\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:57:10","slug":"east-village-residents-lose-bid-to-stop-new-nyc-homeless-shelter-in-their-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262660\/","title":{"rendered":"East Village residents lose bid to stop new NYC homeless shelter in their neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concerned East Village residents on Wednesday lost their bid to stop the Mamdani administration <\/a>from relocating hundreds of homeless men into their neighborhood.<\/p>\n

A Manhattan judge dismissed the lawsuit from the downtown neighbors that sought to block the city from building a new shelter intake center for single, adult men on East Third Street.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no legal basis to find that [the city\u2019s] decision to relocate the intake center to East Third Street was made in violation of law or in an arbitrary and capricious manner,\u201d Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Sabrina Kraus ruled.<\/p>\n

\"NYCManhattan Supreme Court Justice Sabrina Kraus dismissed the lawsuit from East Village residents, preventing them from stopping the Mamdani administration from relocating hundreds of homeless men into their neighborhood. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n

The furious locals \u2014 known as VOICE, for Village Organization for the Integrity of Community Engagement \u2014 sued the city<\/a> in April, claiming the move was rushed and side-stepped required hearings and public review.<\/p>\n

Kraus, who had previously issued an order delaying the center\u2019s opening<\/a>, wrote that she \u201cunderstands the basis for concern\u201d \u2014 including their \u201cfrustration with the lack of opportunity to be heard on an issue that may indeed change the character of their block and neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

But she said the group failed to cite a \u201cmandatory factor\u201d in the relocation that would have triggered any of the city\u2019s various land use review processes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Neither the city nor reps for the residents immediately responded to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorThe shelter will be built on East Third Street.<\/p>\n

VOICE\u2019s attorney Randy Mastro, in a court hearing last month, claimed the Mamdani admin had already spent $1.3 million<\/a> on renovations to the city-owned building chosen for the new intake center. <\/p>\n

It was once the site of a notoriously dingy and dangerous men\u2019s shelter in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a major capital project\u2026 a major change in use with enormous impacts on the community,\u201d he argued in court.<\/p>\n

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But despite Krause appearing skeptical of the city\u2019s arguments during the hearing, she wrote in her ruling that the law could not call the relocation a major change of use.<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither the change nor the renovations are substantial enough to trigger said review,\u201d she ruled, and deemed the fact that the new shelter use does not require a new certificate of occupancy as \u201csignificant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concerned East Village residents on Wednesday lost their bid to stop the Mamdani administration from relocating hundreds of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7624,9468,2850,75,4327,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-262660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-east-village","tag-homeless-shelters","tag-lawsuits","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-supreme-court","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}