| As Peck Slip
School Protests Shelter in
Former Hotel Next Door Tenants
Protest Developer
by
Matthew R. Lee
LOWER
MANHATTAN,
July 7 – A controversy has
been developing near the South
Street Seaport, in which the
NYC Department of Social
Services is moving to open a
men's shelter next door to the
Pcck Slip school.
Inner City Press and its
Downtown News Service went to
investigate, and found what
was previously a Hampton Inn
hotel at 320 Pearl Street now
empty, with brown paper on its
windows.
It turns
about the David Schwart's
Slate Property Group, already
subject to protest by tenants
on the Upper West Side for
radically raising their rents
- threatening to make some
homeless - bought the Hampton
Inn in December 2023 for $24
million.
How is it more
lucrative to turn it into a
homeless shelter than run it
as a hotel? And why is the
City doing this plan, with a
developer being protests by
its existing
tenants?
A Freedom of
Information Law request has
been filed. Watch this site.
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