WALL Street residents and businesses are suing New York City in an attempt to stop Mayor Bill de Blasio from relocating almost 300 homeless men to a hotel.
The group, Downtown New Yorkers Inc., filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday, October 14, to prevent the transfer of the homeless men from the Upper West Side to a former Radisson Hotel in the Financial District.
De Blasio has worked tirelessly over the past few months on how to address the backlash surrounding his decision to house some 13,000 of the city’s homeless population into hotels that have been left empty as the pandemic halted tourism.
