Homeless Shelter

It is a socialist mayor wanting to say fku to the rich. More than wondering about the quality of life in the neighborhood, it is the cost of housing homeless in such an expensive area which bothers me. If the homeless are housed in a cheaper area at half the cost, the extra money can go to education (make both Ali and me happy).

Hey, Trump floated the idea decades ago.

Well, this building isn't for the rich. It is rentals ($3000+) and the middle class don't have security to protect them from the potential of increased crime etc.

I'm not a bible thumper but the poor will always be among us. Everyone has to share the pain. https://streeteasy.com/talk/discussion/22055-new-chelsea-homeless-shelter-127-w25th

Stache, There is nothing wrong with the city helping the poor (extent of help can be debated and the same for whether that poor needs to have been a resident of NYC for “x” number of years before help is given - essentially a check on people moving to nyc to be nyc tax payers’ dime). However, the city can help the poor equally well by housing them in a less expensive real estate location and not forgo the real estate taxes the city would have collected at a more expensive location like cps.

And by the way, percentage of taxes paid by rich (call it more than 500k income) as a percentage of total city revenue is very high. So the rich are indeed sharing the pain.

Actually, since I think billionaire's row has the highest percentage of unoccupied apartments of anywhere it's probably the best place to put a shelter and have the least negative impact on actual NYers daily lives. And it's not like the small percentage of people who live in those buildings shop at local stores, walk the streets, take public transportation, etc. So the social impact will be the least of just about anywhere. Plus those buildings have rather high security already.
If this were added to some seedy block in Chelsea or Midwood or ..... it might have a real negative impact. But no one is buying in billionaire's row because of the neighborhood - they are buying there for the building/unit despite the crappy location (and from Miller Samuel recent report, apparently note so much that, either https://www.millersamuel.com/billionaires-row-continues-to-be-challenged/ )

^ This. People of color complain about shelters being concentrated in their neighborhoods. This is a situation where it's impossible to please everyone.

Well, the city can put homeless shelter close to other public housing in cheaper areas.

The diBlasio 'plan' is to destabilize as man middle-class neighborhoods as possible.

New York's highest court just threw out the litigation that was blocking this shelter, so it can move forward. The neighborhood coalition had warned of dire consequences, but they lost.
https://gothamist.com/news/plans-homeless-shelter-billionaires-row-can-move-forward-after-state-court-rejects-lawsuit