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From Fox News: A building on West 58th Street – overlooking Central Park on a pocket of prime Manhattan land at the park’s south end dubbed “Billionaires Row” – has become the subject of heated tensions between the city and residents battling Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to turn the former Park Savoy hotel into a homeless shelter. But according …

While the neighborhood has been labeled by the press as NIMBYS for protesting a proposed homeless shelter at the Park Savoy Hotel, that is far from the truth. In fact, this community offered to work with the City to make a family shelter a better one with resources for an all purpose room, library or computer lab, and with local …

A group of concerned neighbors won a small victory in the fight to stop a homeless shelter from opening near Billionaires Row in Midtown.

From the New York Post: The new homeless shelter set to open up in the former Park Savoy Hotel in Manhattan’s “Billionaires’ Row” has been put on ice — at least, for the time being. The group of residents suing over the city’s contentious housing plan was granted a temporary injunction halting the construction at the West 58th Street shelter. …

An appeals judge has thrown a wrench in the city’s plans to build a homeless shelter in the ritzy Billionaire’s Row section of Midtown Manhattan, according to reports.

Appellate Judge Jeffrey Oing granted a resident group’s temporary relief on Wednesday, two weeks after a lower court denied their petition for a preliminary injunction at the former Park Savoy Hotel.

From 1010 Wins: NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – There’s been a victory of sorts for a group of residents in Midtown who are trying to prevent the old Park Savoy Hotel from reopening as a homeless shelter. Members of the West 58th Street Coalition filed suit in July to stop the shelter from opening, claiming the building is a fire …

From New York Daily News November 5, 2018: A shabby Midtown hotel the city plans to turn into a homeless shelter is a dangerous firetrap with only one means of exit from the upper floors — a narrow staircase that dead-ends in the lobby, far from the street exit. So says the former top city official who for years picked …

From WCBS News Radio 880: NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Residents living next to the old Savoy Hotel on West 58th Street rallied Sunday over concerns that the shelter could bring crime. The shelter is set to open in the old hotel space at 158 W. 58th St., near Carnegie Hall and Central Park. The local residents noted that there …

From New York Daily News: More than a dozen residents rallied Sunday against the de Blasio administration’s plan to convert the former Park Savoy Hotel in Midtown Manhattan into a men’s homeless shelter. The proposed site is a block away from Central Park and is filled with hotels catering to tourists, community activists point out. The shelter would also be …