previously issued a stay<\/a> until Aug. 11, but she vacated that order June 23 after the city filed an emergency appeal, clearing the way for the closure.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s closing time at Mainchance. Michael Nigro for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cMany of the clients don\u2019t want to go,\u201d Brady Crain, CEO and executive director of Mainchance, told The Post. \u201cJust last week we had 66 people staying overnight. We were fully operating.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeless Services has been on site, directing clients to various social service providers.<\/p>\n
Crain said he is \u201cvery worried\u201d about the clients.<\/p>\n
On June 26, Mainchance put its chairs out on the sidewalk for the taking, Crain said. Tuesday morning, the center gave out its remaining pantry items to clients. By midday, only staff remained on site.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city had determined that the drop-in center is not an efficient, effective use of the city\u2019s limited resources,\u201d the city\u2019s attorney said in court on June 18.<\/p>\n
Mainchance looked empty by Monday afternoon. Courtesy of Mainchance<\/p>\n
Instead, the city wants the homeless to go into safe havens, where they can sleep in a bed overnight before moving into permanent housing. Mainchance submitted a proposal to convert from a drop-in center to a safe haven a couple of years ago, which the city said it is still considering.<\/p>\n
Roschel Holland Stearns, who sits on the Mainchance board, said the city\u2019s shelter system is \u201cfull.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mainchance, which has operated out of its current location since 2005, enrolled 5,800 homeless individuals as \u201cclients\u201d for housing placement services during the first 10 months of this fiscal year, according to court documents. A total of more than 20,000 people \u2014 some repeat visitors \u2014 slept overnight in its 72 chairs.<\/p>\n
The drop-in center, led by CEO Brady Cain, and Jacqueline Connor, its deputy director, will cease operating at the end of Tuesday. Courtesy of Mainchance<\/p>\n
Another 21,000-plus homeless people visited to eat, shower, rest and receive medical and mental health services.<\/p>\n
Mainchance relied primarily on $2.8 million in annual funding from the DHS budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Hall insists it is tackling New York\u2019s homeless crisis \u2014 but in Midtown East, it\u2019s about to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9467,68,9468,2000,75,360,2346,9,24,56,63,65,64,1491,82],"class_list":["post-283032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-department-of-homeless-services","tag-exclusive","tag-homeless-shelters","tag-homelessness","tag-manhattan","tag-midtown","tag-midtown-east","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-real-estate","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283032","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=283032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}