NYC already spent $1.3M on controversial new East Village homeless shelter — as neighbors desperately try to stop it

Source: New York Post

The Mamdani administration has already spent $1. 3 million on its controversial planned new homeless shelter in the East Village — as fed-up locals desperately try to stop it from opening, a dramatic Thursday court hearing revealed. Furious and mostly grey-haired East Village neighbors packed a Manhattan courtroom to hear arguments over the proposed 117-bed intake center for men on East Third Street, replacing the infamous and now-shuttered Bellevue homeless shelter.