We demand safe and clean streets on the Upper West Side

This has to stop! We have schools around those hotels and it will not be safe for children to walk around independently. This is an upscale neighborhood with multimillion dollar properties. People moved here for safety and community. To have 3 new shelters in this neighborhood is unacceptable. There is another shelter on 83/Columbus where 2 years ago a woman was attacked and raped with severe injury to her head. She was attacked by a homeless man from the shelter. It happened on the corner of 83/CPW. Did we forget about that? Who will compensate homeowners for the loss of their property values?

Safety of our kids and the whole neighborhood is paramount for all people living here. What is happening to UWS is unacceptable and have to be addressed as soon as possible.

Unacceptable!!!

Im elderly and do not like this change.

80 West 82nd street 4A

I agree with others who say that Upper West Side hotels being used as shelters in our family neighborhood should accommodate women and children in need of shelter, not men with sex offender records, and substance abuse and other serious problems. That this action was taken reportedly without any consultation with the neighborhood and local officials is unacceptable. I live right near two of the named hotels. I am a native New Yorker and an Upper West Sider for decades. I lived here in the 70s-80s and witnessed what we recovered from. Mayor DeBlasio went on a grandiose binge since his first day in office, spending the surplus of the well-managed Bloomberg years as if some kind of major problem and economic downturn would never happen. While probably well intentioned, the unelected, professionally unqualified Ms. McCray was given far too much money for a mental health program the nature and evaluation of which are still opaque to most New Yorkers. That money should have been left available for exactly the kind of shelter crisis we now face. The hotels must be desperate for any kind of income, I think we can understand and sympathize with that. But a move like this ideally should have involved communication among stakeholder representatives - the city agencies, the homeless population, our local officials, UWS residents, and hotel managers - to approve the most optimal plan for our area. Coping with all the fallout from the covid-19 crisis has already sapped much energy and goodwill; doing the right thing in this instance would have gone a long way toward shoring up UWS morale. We want UWSiders to stay in NYC, not leave, as in the 1970s!

Putting drug addicts next to school so that children have no safe passage is not acceptable.

247 West 87th Street Apt. 23B

This is unacceptable to relocate these people in this neighborhood without warning or notice to residents.

We are demanding a safe neighborhood.

The city is neglecting the rights of the residents of our family oriented neighborhood to feel safe and valued by loading it, without warning, with hundreds of drug addicts and even some sex offenders in 3 hotels within very close proximity of each other and just steps from schools serving young children. The vibe of Broadway between 76th and 77th has already changed drastically in the past month since the Belleclaire was converted to a shelter —with open use of marijuana, aggressive begging and persistent loitering by the newcomers. Now, just a few blocks north, the residents of our neighborhood will see yet another pocket of threatening activity develop now that the Lucerne has been converted to a shelter. While it is kind to the recovering addicts, is this generosity really fair to our community? Shouldn’t other communities be asked to welcome their first shelter before ours is asked to absorb their third?!

155 West 81st street

I am a 30 year resident of the UWS. When I moved in in 1990 the streets were unsafe with homeless sleeping on the streets. We are now back to where we were at that time. This is some situation. There are no police to be found and we are inundated with quality of life crimes and homelessness. What could the decision makers be thinking?

I have been a taxpayer for all of my adult life. I am a die hard New Yorker who demands a SAFE New York City. However, my tax base is leaving , I may have no choice .

This not the neighborhood I planned to grow old in. I am fearfully for myself and my grandchildren You should be ashamed to make this neighborhood aboarding facility. Sham

Save this beautiful city! Get rid of the Mayor and everyone associated with him!

We have worked hard to live in a safe area. This reminds me of the 70’s 80’s where it was difficult and at times scary to walk the streets.

For a safe place to live

Ridiculous this was all done without consulting the community. Also 3 shelters within a few blocks??? 3???

I object to having these hotels turned into homeless shelters.