Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed changes Friday after THE CITY revealed how homeless men ejected from the subways during overnight cleanups wound up packed together sleeping on shelter floors. Photos obtained by THE CITY showed some 20 men […]
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Homeless Sent from Subways to Social Distancing Nightmares
Additional reporting by Claudia Irizarry Aponte Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. It’s around 2 o’clock in the morning and the beige marble lobby of the 30th Street Men’s Shelter in Manhattan has filled up with more than 20 homeless men just expelled from […]
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NYC Shuttles Homeless Men from Subway to Packed Shelter
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for THE CITY’s daily morning newsletter. The convoy arrived in the chilly Manhattan darkness around 1:30 a.m.: vehicles pulling up one after the other outside 30th Street Men’s Shelter, the city’s biggest refuge for homeless New Yorkers. The passengers who emerged at this temporary […]
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Too Close for Comfort Inside NYC’s Biggest Homeless Shelter
Need to know more about coronavirus in New York? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. In a photo shot Monday, seven residents of the 30th Street Men’s Shelter — the city’s biggest refuge for homeless New Yorkers — sit clustered around a small cafeteria table. Only one has a surgical mask — and it’s […]
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NYC’s Biggest Shelter Plagued by Asbestos and Other Dangers
Sign up for “THE CITY Scoop,” our daily newsletter where we send you stories like this first thing in the morning. The day after the Fourth of July, 2018, the city evacuated eight homeless men from their beds at Manhattan’s 30th Street Men’s Shelter and moved them elsewhere inside the cavernous facility. Their third-floor dorm […]