Mamdani administration moves 250 homeless men from Midtown shelter to Brooklyn

All 250 homeless men residing inside the massive Midtown shelter set to be shuttered by the Mamdani administration have been relocated to Brooklyn, city officials said.

The Department of Homeless Services said that as of Sunday night, no one was sleeping at the 30th Street site known as Bellevue, though the city is still operating intake services there — the “front door” where single men and families without young children go to ask for a bed. Intake services will be moved to two other Manhattan shelter sites by May 1.

“We believe the sites we have chosen offer comparable and better intake and assessment, accessibility,” Department of Social Services Commissioner Erin Dalton said during a City Council budget hearing on Tuesday…

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