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St. Louis Hall Conversion
New Housing For Homeless Proves Divisive
New York Sun
By BENJAMIN SARLIN
11/16/2007
City To Send More Mentally Ill To Upper West Side
WCBS Channel 2
Don Dahler
11/13/2007
Apple Hotel
The New York Post devoted two editorials to the Apple Hotel (aka the
Mount Royal) on September 5, 2006. Here are some execepts:
"ANGRY LOCALS, UNHAPPY 'CLIENTS
by TOM ELLIOTT'
A documentary filmmaker who's lived across from the building (formerly
the Mount Royal Hotel) for the past five years says, "You noticed right
away that the neighborhood changed, literally overnight. You now notice
people stumbling down the street, clearly chemically incapacitated."
Marina Higgins, a longtime Upper West Side resident, fears The Apple
will drag down local property values. A real-estate manager at The Argo
Corp., she saw a drop in value for a property she oversees on West
101st Street in2003 - when the city opened The Frant, another
"temporary" shelter, across the street."
You can read an abstract of the original editorial here.
"HELTER SHELTER
Just when New Yorkers thought chaotic streets were a thing of the past,
the Bloomberg administration is again declaring "emergencies" - and
then shoving profoundly troubled "homeless" adults into dangerous
welfare hotels in stable residential neighborhoods."
You can read an abstract of the original editorial here.
The New York Times reported on the effect the homeless shelter has
on the permanent residents of the Apple, in their City section on
August 20, 2006. Here's an excerpt of that article:
"For a Homeless Shelter, a Wary Reception
By SAKI KNAFO
Joan Martinez, a teenage runaway who is now 36, lives in a
single-room-occupancy hotel on the Upper West Side where she pays $338
a month. Ms. Martinez describes herself as being a “paycheck or two
away” from homelessness, but that doesn’t mean she is happy to see the
city turn her home, a seven-story brick building on 94th Street near
West End Avenue, into a homeless shelter.
You can read the entire article here.