Oh its the person that "works" right near the hotel. Hello, you don't live there. So do not call anyone a liar when you do not live 24 hours uptown or downtown. — New York on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

To the comment made about me, NEW YORK LIES. Hiding behind a computer. We are all giving opinions on a permanent Shelter downtown in our community. I have NO REASON WHATSOEVER to lie about MY relative who lives on the Upper Westside. How dare you call me a liar. Who are you anyway? Come clean. Why would you fight me on Tribeca Citizen article? Coward remark — New York on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

There are plenty of options for this kind of thing in the outer boroughs. Leave Manhattan alone. We pay the lion's share of the taxes for these programs as it is, and then the Mayor has the audacity to dump this powder keg right on our doorsteps. — William on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

Let’s propose a compromise - a safe shelter for homeless WOMEN and their children. I don’t think anyone would oppose this. And it is definitely needed. — A2 on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

De Blasio this De Blasio that. So vote. Run for mayor yourself. This city is the best it's ever been. Never been prouder. Problems can and should be solved. Gotta say while I don't like why they emerged I LOVE the curbside dining areas - make them permanent say April through October. — Stop just stop on Frenchette will revive a bakery in the Arcade space

Thanks, James. I was going to respond last night but just felt weary making the same old points. I am a progressive, and I hate BdB for the reasons you outline above. And if people like Lowrider actually think BdB is a progressive and governs like one, well that gives us a bad name. I also like facts: Roger sadly closed Arcade because of personal reasons, not because of the 'bad old 70s'. If by those comments you are referring to some people leaving now (I repeat: some, many of whom were already planning to decamp ... I know some), should we not also consider the elephant in the room? (Which is not BdB, despite his size.) It's disingenuous not to. But we can agree that Roger is fantastic and his involvement in any way would be wonderful. — malcolm on Frenchette will revive a bakery in the Arcade space

This is the best news of the entire week (perhaps of the entire last six months)! And Mr. Dooley, completely agree with you on all three points. Particularly #2. VOTE people!! — Croissant super fan on Frenchette will revive a bakery in the Arcade space

So just to be clear, you're saying... unless police are allowed to murder innocent people with zero consequences, they should stop doing their jobs, so that MORE innocent people suffer? Wait, there HAVE been SOME consequences... the lawsuits brought against them, that WE pay with OUR taxes. Look it up: New York City taxpayers spent $230 million to pay off 6,472 lawsuits settled against the NYPD in the fiscal year 2017-2018 according to an annual report released by Comptroller Scott Stringer’s office. The lawsuits included excessive use of force, wrongful arrest and imprisonment, malicious prosecution and more. $230 million to protect bad cops in ONE year? Why are the good cops standing by this BS?! If these dangerous, violent thugs were in the army, they'd be court-martialed and kicked out. But the NYPD protects them, using OUR TAXES. what kind of madness is this? This doesn't happen in other countries. Stop protecting bad cops. Protect New Yorkers!! — TM on Four shots fired on Franklin Street

DeBlasio is ruining our city! I live across the street & this will drive me out of the city. I am a young female living alone. I already feel enough stress/anxiety without this. I can't handle feeling too scared to go outside in my own neighborhood. There was NO warning. I just signed a new 12 month lease. We pay for a quiet, safe, kid friendly neighborhood.. NOT a homeless shelter with drug addicts! — Liz on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

Another liberal snowflake- There is hundreds of low income housing down here, and many minorities. So the answer is reverse gentrification- Billions have been spent on revitalizing the area over 20 years- so lets destroy it furhter. We have had homeless shelters down here already before covid- Ignorance is bliss- I hope you get your unicorn from Deblasio. — Downtowner on CB1 will host meeting on homeless shelter TODAY

AMEN! I used to live on the UWS (four blocks from the Lucerne) and for the past 15 years have resided in Southeastern Tribeca/City Hall area (6 blocks from proposed shelter location). I have a family with two young kids. And I am frankly appalled, if not too surprised, by the shrill, privileged, new money hysteria represented by many of the above comments. The level of racism and classism embedded in these misconceptions and biased assessments of the threat and "quality of life" dangers posed by the homeless among us is disgraceful. You are all lucky to live where you live and have shelter, food and assured futures. Homelessness is a major problem in NYC. The mayor is a great disappointment. The police are not the answer, and in fact are a demonstrated threat to anyone but the hypergentry. Homelessness and the systemic failures undergirding it will not be solved by people who have no sense of social conscience or true community-based civic duty or responsibility to the cast-off and forgotten citizens who share this city with us. — Warren on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

Enough is enough!! This WILL NOT BE TOLERATED in downtown. We keep getting the brunt end of the stick ALWAYS! What's going to happen when Wall street becomes congested again — Concerned Resident on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

Where is the $1 BILLION dollars De Blasio spent on Thrive NYC? — SarahOpp on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

There is a mentally ill homeless man who lives under the tracks of the 2/3 Wall St. Station and spends his days filling unattended shopping carts with trash. He also often obstructs the stairwells with them. He leaves them for days sometimes and they represent a major hazard and could be pushed in front of a train or someone could hide a bomb there in a crowded location. I asked both the Metro police and NYPD to clear the unattended trash carts from the platform. Their response was that the opaque carts were his physical property and removing them, even shen unattended for days, would be a violation of his civil rights, so the hazard remains for us all. They said the only thing they could do was have the coalition for the homeless offer him help if he wanted it but they know him and he has already refused it. So working people have to step around his dangerous carts to get to work because this mayor is so focused on protecting the rights of mentally ill persons that he creates a 911 style hazard for everyone commuting from that station. Last year, the law was also changed to make it no longer a criminal offense to urinate in public. Why are these people being kept in office destroying the city and Our quality of life while we struggle to improve society and provide funding for city services that then get mismanaged. Red light cameras would eliminate the need for city employees directing traffic and the city could probably save more money by keeping the salaries of persons whose only job is to write parking tickets so none of us can even unload our vehicles or even pull over to drop someone off. The constituents need to wise up and elect new politicians to clean up the city rather than destroying it like DeBlasio and Margaritas Chin and Alexandria Orcasio Cortez who drove away thousands of jobs from Amazon that were much needed by the local population. — Jonathan on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

Yo Lowrider, three points. First, I don't think we should necessarily blame Progressives. I believe DeBalz is his own uniquely unqualified politician completely incapable of governing a complex city like NYC. I'm not "Progressive", I just believe DeBlaz couldn't manage his way out of a paper bag. Useless, much like Trump, just the opposite end of the political spectrum. Second, we have only ourselves to blame. Only 24% of us turned out to vote the first time ('13) and 27% the second time ('17). Third and lastly, wasn't that bakery damn good? I hope Roger re-appears in our hood. — James Dooley on Frenchette will revive a bakery in the Arcade space

YES!!!!!! — Kb on Four shots fired on Franklin Street

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Yes, superb. Hope they bring on Roger as a consultant. He was one of the best parts of the NYC mosaic. So sad what's happening now. Everyone is leaving. Back to the 1970's. Utterly predictable consequence of Deblasio and the progressives. So sad. Just hope people can learn. — Lowrider on Frenchette will revive a bakery in the Arcade space

Please check out our FB page where we are posting similar fact-based information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsoffidinyc — Friends of FiDi on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

I am in no way wealthy. I live a block away and work 15hr days to barely afford my apt with high taxes and common charges. I have already lost most of my equity from federal tax increase and job loss act, and the expiration of tax abatement making living here and providing services through collected taxes prohibitive. Regardless of whether I want to share my neighborhood with the poor, many prospective buyers do not and this destroys my property value even more causing mass migration out of the city and job losses and even further increases in local taxes used for services. The Radisson could be sold for 1B dollars and the city could build 200 same size new shelters with services in more affordable neighborhoods. This not only prevents me from creating jobs, but virtually bankrupts me and makes in impossible to sell my condo and pay off my mortgage and survive. I may have to join the homeless now to afford to live on my block where I have spent my entire life helping the city to provide these services. Residents who have to work are middle class, not wealthy, and destroying property values and allocating minimal space and no services is irresponsible where a developer would be happy to buy the building and 100 new shelters with services with the same funds in a more affordable neighborhood. Most of the people who work in this neighborhood commute at least an hour each way and sometimes work 2 jobs or multiple shifts to survive and should have priority for being productive members of society and supporting the city services through the high taxes they are already forced to pay for existing mismanaged services. The losses and reduced safety of residents struggling to support the neighborhood far exceeds the inefficient use of luxury space and is irresponsible and negligent, hurting those people who you are trying to help by destroying tax revenue for the city and jobs leading to reduced budgets for social services and increased taxes causing residents to give up and flee the area. Again, you are destroying the middle class and the people who work in this area in order to promote yourself rather than looking out for the best interest of the people you are claiming that you are trying to help. — Jonathan on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

Awesome news! — JW on Frenchette will revive a bakery in the Arcade space

I personally have called 3-1-1 and 9-1-1 several times since COVID began to report unfortunate behavior by seemingly homeless individuals. My complaints about these individuals have ranged from walking around the neighborhood with NO PANTS on while kids are riding their bikes way too close to this person, to someone relieving themselves in the street, someone screaming at me calling me a 'f&%king fag$ot', to someone pulling a knife and waving it around. In all but one of the incidents reported above - NO ONE SHOWED UP to help. I have absolutely no problem with helping the homeless situation if police and mental health professionals come along with it. Even if the shelter doesn't move to FiDi - we need help keeping our neighborhood safe. I don't feel comfortable outside after dark, and I have lived in the city for over twenty years. DiBlasio is a disgrace as is his entire administration. Please show up to the meeting tomorrow night - our gov't isn't going to help us, so we have to help ourselves. — SSS on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

I’ve never understood why you would put homeless shelters in wealthy neighborhoods. It makes NO SENSE. First of all, the neighborhood is wealthy because everyone works hard and is focused on keeping a safe & clean environment for themselves & their family. It’s not exactly fair to them to drop the mentally unstable & drug addicted into that mix. And please don’t say ‘how do you know that’s what they are’ because every government statistic points to these being key contributing factors to homelessness. Second, these neighborhoods are incredibly expensive to live in beyond just rent: you’ll often pay much more for a quick lunch ($15 sandwiches & $4 ice tea) and your weekly groceries will be much more expensive as well. This doesn’t help the homeless either. They’ll have to spend what little money they have on over-priced items vs what they would pay in a lower economic neighborhood. It just makes more sense to house them in a neighborhood more aligned to the reality of their situation. Somewhere they are also more likely to afford when they get back on their feet. It’s not exactly feasible they are going to transition from a homeless shelter into an $8k a month 2 bedroom apartment in FiDi. They could, however, feasibly afford an apartment in a less expensive section of Brooklyn or Queens if they got back on track. So why not start them off there? — wvshrknyc on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

It sounds bad but you're exactly right. Unfortunately they will have to find a neighborhood where people don't have the money to fight them off. People pay A LOT of money to live down here and safety/cleanliness is a big reason. I agree with your point but I also think a homeless shelter in the area would completely destroy one of the nicest, most desirable family neighborhoods in the city. I'm a homeowner with a family in this neighborhood. I think its the most wonderful place to live and will happily fight to keep it that way. Sorry! — K on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi

I am the fourth generation living in New York City. I lived through the 70s and 80s and the 90s when the city started to become what it is today! The crime and garbage we lived through was unimaginable. No one only a Native New Yorker would understand. For the past 30 years I have felt SAFE here. It was great raising my kids who are now in their 20s. Who wants to go backwards and destroy what WE built here? No one does. Since March with the virus the streets are empty, Lots of people have moved out. There is an element around downtown with predator's who are mugging and assaulting people. Our Mayor isn't any good. You need to walk with eyes behind your head. We lived through 911, 20 years of the rebuilding. We lived through Super Storm Sandy. We don't need a Permanent Homeless Shelter Down here. Upper West fought for a reason. It was bad, don't let anyone try to tell you otherwise. This is not wanted down here. Put the troubled Mental homeless somewhere else beside near residence and schools and communities. The Mayor is a horror. We will not allow this to happen. — New York on Neighbors prepare to fight the expansion of a homeless shelter in Fidi