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UWS NIMBYism and Shelter Residents
City Council Member Helen Rosenthal (6th District, UWS) and Joshua Goldfein, staff attorney in Legal Aid's Homeless Rights Project, talk about the NIMBY campaign mounted by some residents in the Upper West Side to evict several hundred homeless men living in the Lucerne Hotel and Legal Aid's threatened countersuit to halt the further dislocations. The relocations are currently halted pending negotiations.