Posted on 08/19/2020 6:37:39 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
The guests arrived at the Lucerne Hotel, two blocks from Central Park, carrying their belongings, stepping off buses and filling the hotel’s empty rooms, which typically cost more than $200 a night.
They were not tourists nor business travelers but residents of homeless shelters whom the city sent to the Lucerne to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the crowded shelter system. Over three days, 283 men moved into the hotel.
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Embrace the suck.
That doesn't sound like the price of a fancy hotel in NYC.
NIMBY sometimes makes sense when it doesn’t simultaneously mean that what isn’t in THEIR backyard doesn’t get pushed to MY backyard.
Otherwise, it is rank hypocrisy.
“Values tested?” That’s pretty funny. It should read, “their hypocrisy exposed.” That’s what’s really going on.
You get what you vote for.
Can it be NIMBY when you don’t even have a yard? Looks like a yes.
Blue values...blue balls...
where has Wilhelm-theCommunistdestroyerOFnewyorkcity
put up (imposed at taxpayer expense)
his beautiful daughter and her very active friends?
Living with liberal values is for other people. Liberals don’t need to live with the consequences of their actions. Gated communities, private schools and armed security are the hallmarks of liberals.
That doesn't sound like the price of a fancy hotel in NYC.
$200/night in New York is Motel 5.
I'm Tom Bodett for Motel 5, and we'll turn off the electricity at 9:00.
Well, a $1,000 is more than $200. As is $2,000.
So maybe they meant that.
” It is called NIMBY. “
It doesn’t even reach to that level.
Progressive New Yorkers especially those with children are leaving New York and are contaminating the suburbs.
200 a night sounds more like the parking space.
The Lucerne is a nice higher-end tourist hotel; it’s not luxury in the sense of the Plaza or the Trump property. It has (or had) a nice restaurant attached and was particularly good for families. Most rooms or suites were more than $200, but they were still not stratospheric.
I’ve stayed at the Lucerne on my trips back to my old neighborhood (UWS) and it was pleasant. I’ve also stayed at the Belleclaire, the other one that the city is destroying with the homeless.
That hotel had just finished a nice remodeling job, btw. Hope the homeless enjoy it.
They are not fancy hotels. They are more like small, European style hotels than cater to middle class tourists.
Sadly somebody will be raped or murdered and the fantasy will then come to an end. Hopefully the victim will not be a child or somebody not responsible for the charade.
$200/night in NYC is more like the Hotel Penn across from Madison Square Garden where rooms can be anywhere from 1 to 3 stars depending on the floor you are on.
I have never stayed at the Lucerne. I have stayed at the hotel Penn several times. Each time I had to ask for a different room at least twice before I got one that acceptable.
I wonder how much the owners of this hotel are getting paid by the city to let the homeless live there.
Many Americans have become spineless simps, who have abandoned their basic judgement. They are like jellyfish floating wherever the tide takes them. Its because of the strong post-modern influence on our culture and education - particularly in places like NY City.
These people almost always become leftists / democrats.
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