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Upper West Side residents say three hotels that are housing hundreds of homeless men during the coronavirus pandemic have turned the area into a spectacle of public urination, catcalling and open drug use.Among those staying at the luxury Belleclaire on Broadway and the Lucerne on West 79th Street, and the more down-market Belnord on West 87th Street, are people who are mentally ill, recovering from drug addictions, and registered sex offenders.Ten sex offenders are staying in a single hotel — the Belleclaire, which is just one block from the playground of PS 87.
“It doesn’t feel safe anymore,” nanny Michele McDowall, 39, told The Post.She said she was recently offered crack by a pair of homeless men as she wheeled a toddler along Riverside Park at 79th Street.“You want to buy crack?” she said they shouted repeatedly as she hurried past, and as the frightened 2-year-old girl in the stroller put her hands over her ears and cried, “Too loud!”
“The DHS is a rogue agency,” one local community board member said of the homeless influx, noting that residents were given no input and little or no notice of the move.The board member, who asked to not be identified by name, said they were told the city was paying the hotels $175 a day per homeless person or “two guys in a room at $350 a day.”“You do the math,” the board members said. “It’s a lot of money.”