De Blasio plans to open homeless shelter on ‘Billionaire’s Row’

[Right_in_Virginia]

De Blasio plans to open homeless shelter on ‘Billionaire’s Row’
NY Post, Jan 17, 2018

Mayor Bill de Blasio blindsided Manhattan’s “Billionaire’s Row” with a quietly announced plan to open a men’s homeless shelter in the former Park Savoy Hotel.

The building at 158 W. 58th St. — which stands back-to-back against the city’s most expensive apartment building, One57 — is being converted into housing for 150 residents and is scheduled to open in March, the city’s Department of Homeless Services said Wednesday.

Hizzoner’s plan — part of a program to create 90 new shelters across all five boroughs — was revealed last week in letters to local elected officials.

“Are you kidding me?” said a resident of the landmark JW Marriott Essex House hotel and condo building on Park South.  “I am in shock. You just shocked the s–t out of me.”

More: https://nypost.com/2018/01/17/de-blasio-plans-to-open-homeless-shelter-on-billionaires-row/

[driftdiver]

a simple lawsuit with the zoning commission should fix this, or heck one of them will buy the building and kick them out.

I suggest De Blasio open up his own home.

[endicom]

Dinkins redux. The egalitarians destroyed sections of NYC with welfare hotels.

As part of my job I would walk through Herald Square (shopping district - Macy's, etc.) and watched it turn into a slum. It was becoming dangerous to be there midday. The same was happening in the Theater and Financial districts.

Then Giuliani.

[edpc]

Mayor Bill de Blasio blindsided Manhattan’s “Billionaire’s Row” with a quietly announced plan to open a men’s homeless shelter in the former Park Savoy Hotel.

*************

“Are you kidding me?” said a resident of the landmark JW Marriott Essex House hotel and condo building on Park South.  “I am in shock. You just shocked the s–t out of me.”

Like the days of Stomping at the Savoy
Now we "freak," oh, what a joy
Just come on down to the 54
Find your spot out on the floor

Ah, freak out!
Le freak, c'est chic
Freak out!

[txradioguy]

That's a move right out of Lenin's playbook.

I'm sure the people who funded his last campaign who live in that area will love what he's doing.

[Oceander]

a simple lawsuit with the zoning commission should fix this, or heck one of them will buy the building and kick them out.

I suggest De Blasio open up his own home.

In NYC?  You jest, right?

[dfwgator]

Well they voted for it, enjoy.

[sneakypete]

EXCELLENT news! No group of people have  a higher percentage of leftist loons than the NYC millionaire and billionaire clubs. Most are multi-generational trust fund children with a lot of kneejerk programming,and not one single actual thought.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people.

[edpc]

That's a move right out of Lenin's playbook.

I'm sure the people who funded his last campaign who live in that area will love what he's doing.

We’ve seen this movie before......


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mq__Z-Z_Ofs

[Victoria33]

That's a move right out of Lenin's playbook.
I'm sure the people who funded his last campaign who live in that area will love what he's doing.

@txradioguy

Story about homeless:
A couple of weeks ago, we had a cold front come in, temp was below freezing.  Bob went to a water place where he gets the big jugs of drinking water for a container at home.  It was late afternoon. There was a woman dressed in shorts in the doorway of that business.  He has seen her there before.  She spoke to him and wanted to come home with him, saying she had no place to stay that night in the cold.  He tried to give her a $100 bill, and she wouldn't take it - said that isn't what she needs right now.

He was disturbed that she was going to be in the cold that night but wouldn't take the money.  Now, that makes no sense.  That money could pay for a night in a motel where she would be warm.  There is no way he would bring home a stranger.
What would you do if that woman asked to go home with you?

[Frank Cannon]

@txradioguy

Story about homeless:
A couple of weeks ago, we had a cold front come in, temp was below freezing.  Bob went to a water place where he gets the big jugs of drinking water for a container at home.  It was late afternoon. There was a woman dressed in shorts in the doorway of that business.  He has seen her there before.  She spoke to him and wanted to come home with him, saying she had no place to stay that night in the cold.  He tried to give her a $100 bill, and she wouldn't take it - said that isn't what she needs right now.

He was disturbed that she was going to be in the cold that night but wouldn't take the money.  Now, that makes no sense.  That money could pay for a night in a motel where she would be warm.  There is no way he would bring home a stranger.
What would you do if that woman asked to go home with you?

Sounds like solicitation to me.

[edpc]

Sounds like solicitation to me.

Silly man.  How do you get that out of ‘big jugs,’ ‘shorts,’ ‘$100,’ and let’s go back to your place?   

[mountaineer]

EXCELLENT news! No group of people have  a higher percentage of leftist loons than the NYC millionaire and billionaire clubs. Most are multi-generational trust fund children with a lot of kneejerk programming,and not one single actual thought.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people.

Maybe next time they won't elect a Marxist who uses an alias.

[edpc]

Maybe next time they won't elect a Marxist who uses an alias.

Problem is, you get a Giuliani or Bloomberg type Republican. 

[Victoria33]

Sounds like solicitation to me.

@Frank Cannon

We thought about that.  If she had that in mind, she would have taken the money and offered sex.  She didn't, and wouldn't take the money. A prostitute would have taken the free money.  I'm thinking something is wrong with her mind.  No one would turn down free money when she was freezing unless she couldn't think right.  Also, that is an upscale area, as this whole area is, not a place where prostitutes would hang out.  We have wondered what happened to her that night.

[Restored]

The number of Leftists living there is why it won't happen. It's just a PR stunt. They donate too much to liberal politicians to let it happen.

We open our churches to the homeless. It places the men in peril of being arrested because some of them are registered sex offenders and not allowed to be there. But we feel good about ourselves. I have found that much of the "help" we do for the poor is done to cover up crimes. We are covering up crimes tonight at Small Group.

[Frank Cannon]

@Frank Cannon

We thought about that.  If she had that in mind, she would have taken the money and offered sex.  She didn't, and wouldn't take the money. A prostitute would have taken the free money.  I'm thinking something is wrong with her mind.  No one would turn down free money when she was freezing unless she couldn't think right.  Also, that is an upscale area, as this whole area is, not a place where prostitutes would hang out.  We have wondered what happened to her that night.

She thought you were cops.

[mountaineer]

Problem is, you get a Giuliani or Bloomberg type Republican.

As mayors go, NYC could have done a lot worse than Giuliani. Bloomberg, on the other hand ...   

[dfwgator]

Problem is, you get a Giuliani or Bloomberg type Republican.

What was wrong with Giuliani?

[sneakypete]

Problem is, you get a Giuliani or Bloomberg type Republican.

@edpc

No,the problem is they have to wear party labels so you can tell them apart.

[edpc]

What was wrong with Giuliani?

For NYC?  Nothing.  However, there was obviously plenty wrong with him as a national candidate, based on his performance.

[sneakypete]

@Frank Cannon

We thought about that.  If she had that in mind, she would have taken the money and offered sex.  She didn't, and wouldn't take the money. A prostitute would have taken the free money.  I'm thinking something is wrong with her mind.  No one would turn down free money when she was freezing unless she couldn't think right.  Also, that is an upscale area, as this whole area is, not a place where prostitutes would hang out.  We have wondered what happened to her that night.

@Victoria33

She was wearing shorts and it was freezing. That's really all you need to know to identify a nut case.

[dfwgator]

For NYC?  Nothing.  However, there was obviously plenty wrong with him as a national candidate, based on his performance.

Agreed.  In NYC, he's as good as you ever are going to get.  NYC isn't like the rest of the country.

[Frank Cannon]

For NYC?  Nothing.  However, there was obviously plenty wrong with him as a national candidate, based on his performance.

We're talking about NYC mayors here. Not national politics. Rudy was the awesomist mayor that town ever saw. I couldn't believe the speed in which he turned that city from a dangerous hellhole to a safe clean place to be.

[Victoria33]

Silly man.  How do you get that out of ‘big jugs,’ ‘shorts,’ ‘$100,’ and let’s go back to your place?   

@edpc

Well, water was in the big jugs; the jugs not on her.     And, she didn’t take the free money and a prostitute would have.  She knew she was stuck there and still didn’t take the money.  As I told Frank, it is an upscale area, not a place prostitutes would hang out.