Tale of two cities: Homeless shelter
to open smack-bang in the middle
of NYC's 'Billionaires' Row,'
Court of Appeals rules
New York Daily News,
by
Molly Crane-Newman
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
5/31/2021 4:09:16 PM
Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row will soon feature a men’s homeless shelter smack-bang in the middle of it despite a three-year offensive to halt its creation by members of the city’s elite, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled. Residents of the city’s priciest street fought tooth and nail to halt Mayor de Blasio’s $60.8 million plan to open a 150-bed men’s shelter in the closed Park Savoy Hotel at 158 W. 58th St., arguing the location would be a dangerous “firetrap” and that crime would inevitably ensue on the ritzy block. The West 58th Street Coalition, which brought the 2018 suit, had challenged
Reply 1 - Posted by:
panther361 5/31/2021 4:15:10 PM (No. 802019)
Coming to a city near you, or in it. Sadly.
67 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Faithfully 5/31/2021 4:15:14 PM (No. 802020)
Good. I was listening to a radio commentator on the car radio today. He said, make these leftist liberals live with the decisions that they have made for the rest of us.
142 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Cindiana 5/31/2021 4:26:27 PM (No. 802033)
That's right, #1. Let the elites in the city live with the policies they're so desperate to foist on our wonderful, peaceful American suburbs. I hope Sarah Jessica Parker and her ilk welcome all their new neighbors with understanding, compassion, love, and inclusiveness. Share your bounty, have their children over for play dates, enjoy them in your schools, meet at Starbucks, and be proud to live your dream!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
klezmer 5/31/2021 4:27:58 PM (No. 802034)
All I can say is, "hahahahaha"
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Ha ha.
Ha ha ha.
Take that! You dreadful people with your holier-than-thou noses in the air, despairing of having maybe inhaled an air molecule that someone lower on the privilege ladder may have exhaled.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/31/2021 4:51:01 PM (No. 802045)
This "shelter" will be right around the corner from Carnegie Hall. The old joke used to go - - "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" - - and the punch line was - - "Practice, practice!"
Now it's - - "How do I get to Carnegie Hall?" - - and the punch line is - - "Become a drugged-out vagrant bum!"
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JHP 5/31/2021 4:54:52 PM (No. 802048)
Around the corner from Carnegie Hall...that should be a hoot for the people letting out of there when they reopen. "Got an change lady?" LOL!!
53 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 5/31/2021 4:56:44 PM (No. 802049)
Elections have consequences
Enjoy the bed you sheet in
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
rellimpank2 5/31/2021 4:59:42 PM (No. 802050)
---gee whiz--I like that idea even better than the establishing a wolf and grizzly bear habitat in Central Park--
34 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
SALady 5/31/2021 5:01:05 PM (No. 802052)
Since most of those rich NYC folks are screaming brain-dead lie-berals, I don't even feel sorry for them.
I would guess that the smart conservatives read the writing on the wall and got out long before now.
63 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
sanspeur 5/31/2021 5:13:29 PM (No. 802066)
NIMBY , the newest “hood “ in NYC ! unnoticed is the rezoning blah blah mayor has done in SOHO !To allow hi rises in the very old cobblestone streeted area South of Houston ! On his way our he will leave nothing untrammeled by his greed /sloth & communism .
38 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
subal 5/31/2021 5:18:52 PM (No. 802069)
Enjoying the government you voted for!
58 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 5/31/2021 5:55:29 PM (No. 802087)
Enjoy the suck, you guys supported the people who made it possible. Or DIDN'T support the people who would have prevented it. Same-same.
Zero sympathy for any of the mayhem and destruction that is happening and will be happening in NYC.
55 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/31/2021 6:06:29 PM (No. 802091)
They voted for it, they got it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/31/2021 6:09:15 PM (No. 802092)
Who will give the leftist and liberal Democrats the most votes from that neighborhood, the current residents, or all the homeless that the Democrats will bus in to reside in that homeless shelter? As in the end that will be all that counts to the Democrats. Chances are the current residents of that neighborhood gave their previous votes to the same Democrats who are now going to put a hurt on them.
20 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/31/2021 6:24:16 PM (No. 802099)
Karma, baby!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 5/31/2021 6:43:19 PM (No. 802107)
No doubt most of the rich elites are limosine liberals. Now, if the homeless would be so kind as to migrate tp Malibu, Bel Air. Holmby Hills, Hancock Park (home of Maxin Waters) and Beverly Hills, every this would be hunky dory just like New York City. Mayfair in London could use a few homeless, too.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/31/2021 6:47:21 PM (No. 802109)
Lead by example city dwellers before you foist this on the burbs.
23 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 5/31/2021 6:56:35 PM (No. 802112)
Thanks for posting. Made my day.
BWAhahahahaaaa!
23 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/31/2021 7:21:38 PM (No. 802130)
Hey Park Avenue. That sucking sound you hear is your real estate values going south. Sell fast and BTW there will be 30 more billionaires gone for NYC to tax. Just in one day.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
VAPMAN 5/31/2021 7:50:04 PM (No. 802148)
Next get ready for a large wind farm in Central Park
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/31/2021 8:12:21 PM (No. 802171)
NYC can not break out of its death spiral and numnutz "leaders" like deBlasio and his greedy wife help it along. These billionaires would be wise to leave while they still can.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
chumley 5/31/2021 8:14:10 PM (No. 802172)
I frequent two small cities where those shelters exist. They ALWAYS ruin an area. I've seen insane people trying to take shopping carts onto busses, panhandlers outside restaurants trying to bum free meals off compassionate diners, stoned and drunk staggering down the middle of streets, and groups of them staking out parking lots waiting for easy marks. With luck they will do the same to this snobbish elite neighborhood.
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To think they voted for Wilhelm and Fredo twice. Enjoy the smells of the city.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DARling 5/31/2021 11:43:06 PM (No. 802266)
Why in the name of all that's holy would anyone live in New York City these days? A lot of rats have already left the sinking ship but those remaining are baring their fangs.
17 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/1/2021 1:16:37 AM (No. 802293)
I hear a high, whiney voice crying, ''Can't we all just get along?''
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/1/2021 1:32:37 AM (No. 802301)
It won't be long before the billionaires leave NYC for another state. 3...2...1.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Calico Al 6/1/2021 1:50:41 AM (No. 802306)
Sounds like a good place to send bus loads the illegals to.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/1/2021 2:35:25 AM (No. 802316)
New Yawk City.... a good place to be from.
.....about a thousand miles 'from',
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
mifla 6/1/2021 4:26:12 AM (No. 802332)
"Thurston, who are these people?"
"Lovey, I don't kjnow, and I don't like it!"
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
4Justice 6/1/2021 5:12:20 AM (No. 802342)
Most of these elites nowadays are all corrupt leftist DemonRats who have been pushing for a class war in order to destroy the middle class and all opportunity for others to be successful and have a part of the American dream. Most of them made their wealth producing NOTHING. Most just found ways to manipulate the system. These are NOT the great industrialists of the 19th and 20th centuries who used their wit and sweat to create great things that improved our society and our lives. No, most of these kind of elitists made their money via corruption, screwing others, manipulating the system, abusing political connections or being overpaid clowns (e.g. entertainment, media, professional sports, etc.). And because many have no real moral compass, their alleged foundations and charities are all false fronts for tax sheltering and funneling money and they do little, if anything, to contribute to the betterment of society. Let the virtue signaling "woke" elite have a taste of their blind stupidity.
Btw, not all homeless are drug addicts, alcoholics or crazy people. But many are and I hope NYC has a large percentage of these types so that the rotten limousine leftist elitists get a good dose of their own medicine. Their power and influence has created this mess and many are hoping to cash in on the breakdown of society so they can impose their totalitarian tyranny on us all. I hope, instead, this will be a wake up call to the few who may still have a little bit of a conscience left.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/1/2021 6:24:58 AM (No. 802379)
The homeless shelter should be forced to pay the same price for the location that the billionaires have paid.
13 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
moebellini3 6/1/2021 7:47:37 AM (No. 802440)
Hope they're right on De Niro's door step....................................
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
AmericaYes 6/1/2021 8:21:11 AM (No. 802484)
While there is pleasure in seeing liberals reap what they sow., let's remember it is a preview of the left’s plan for every suburb if they succeed in ending local single housing zoning laws
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
little guy 6/1/2021 8:55:05 AM (No. 802508)
Well, that will knock a zero off the value of your co-op or condo, know doubt. But the more sinister part of this ruling is that the judge basically said that ANY bureaucratic department of the government knows what is best. This makes their leaders almost invincible.
Elections have deep consequences. This is what happens when you give a devout communist mayor the keys to your car and pray he doesn't drive drunk.
It really may be too late to save new York City.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/1/2021 9:40:47 AM (No. 802559)
This is not exactly a bad thing. All those billionaires screwing over the United States and its citizens can now be forced to run by gauntlets of homeless people. Make our liberal elites deal with the mess they have caused.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/1/2021 10:17:38 AM (No. 802590)
Talk about justice... this should be delicious to watch... the democrat liberals having to share space with the homeless...after all... they were all for sticking it to the black community....now THEIR schools and parks will be filled with _____...it's pure justice....perhaps deblasio could get a couple thousand illegal aliens to live in these upscale buildings...send the illegals to the Park Savoy Hotel...and next spot for illegals should be Martha's Vineyard...after all... obama wants justice for the underclass... like himself...let's see him open his million dollar home to illegals from South America...
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
janjan 6/1/2021 10:36:06 AM (No. 802608)
Probably the only popular decision De Blasio ever made.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Trapper 6/1/2021 11:07:09 AM (No. 802640)
Homelessness in America is a national disgrace. But if all NY is going to do is warehouse drug addicts, alcoholics, and the nonfunctioning mentally ill in another warehouse for the broken and discarded, then the neighbors have a valid objection. For it to work it must strictly enforce rules prohibiting alcohol and drugs and mandating observed taking of prescribed medication daily for those who require it to function. But then, if they actually require residents to address what made them homeless in the first place, will anyone willingly stay there? If experience with other shelters that have tried to NOT descend into snake pits is any indication, the answer is "no."
4 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
legalart 6/1/2021 12:57:50 PM (No. 802762)
It's a great step in the right direction. While they may argue private property rights, these elites don't believe in private property rights for others, so let them live with their philosophy. And escalate it:
Bring busloads of new illegal arrivals from the A and TX border and dump them right next to the Savoy.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/1/2021 1:37:45 PM (No. 802796)
Normally I would caution against the, "well you voted for them; stew in it" responses because, except for a few trolls, no one on this site is likely to have willingly and knowingly voted for Biden, yet he is in the White House. In the case of NYC, I'd have to say, "well you voted for them; stew in it."
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Who better to suffer from the curse of the homeless than those who support the low grade imbeciles who made this deplorable situation possible. Next, put them on the grounds of Gracie Mansion.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/1/2021 7:10:39 PM (No. 803048)
Stick it to dem!
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Why would the swell set object to partaking in the many benefits people experiencing homelessness bring to any area? Drop the selfless sacrifice and jump in; just mind the syringes, the puddles, and the piles, and walk wide when one is ranting and raving in the streets.