NEW YORK — There was confusion and anger Thursday night from Harlem residents over a homeless shelter coming to the neighborhood.
CBS New York’s Ali Bauman was in the room for a community meeting when Mayor Eric Adams made a surprising change of course.
Harlem residents went looking for answers Thursday night about a once-luxury building on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
The building was first marketed as a luxury doorman building. Condos include kitchens with granite countertops and marble bathrooms. Renderings show it even has an indoor swimming pool on its roof.
But records state its developers defaulted on loans.
The development has sat empty for the past decade, until this week when neighbors noticed boxes of bunk beds being loaded in.
“We were trying to find out what was going on, and we weren’t getting any answers to our questions,” Harlem resident Regina Smith said.