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April 25, 2018

NYC eyes shelter along ‘Billlionaires Row'

  • The city plans to house 140 men in an old hotel on West 58th Street, next door to a sleek new tower that houses the superrich.
    • By VERENA DOBNIK
    Associated Press

    NEW YORK — Some of the world's wealthiest people have apartments in the half-dozen new skyscrapers built along a stretch of Manhattan's 57th Street known as “Billionaires Row.” And soon they may have an unwanted new neighbor: a homeless shelter.

    The city has approved a plan to house 140 single men in what was once the budget Park Savoy Hotel on West 58th Street, a modest building right next door to the back entrance of One57, one of the sleek new towers springing up in Manhattan to serve the superrich.


     
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