Mamdani will close NYC’s largest homeless shelter for men, citing disrepair

The Mamdani administration will empty out a hulking men’s homeless shelter in Midtown and relocate its 250 residents by mid-March, city officials told Gothamist.

The city-owned Bellevue shelter on East 30th Street, which doubles as the point of entry for single men and adult families seeking emergency shelter in New York City, is in a serious state of disrepair and will undergo a major redevelopment, a city official said.

In the meantime, the site’s intake centers will be moved elsewhere in Manhattan, and several new shelters will open over the next six months, the official said…

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