The Lucerne Hotel

Housing justice is racial justice. We’re partnering with  @uwsopenhearts for a Protest With Art demonstration and sleep out at The Lucerne Hotel this Saturday, August 29th, at 6pm. We’ll be making a welcome banner, painting signs, doing chalk art, and writing letters to representatives in support of temporary hotel shelters, their residents, and service providers on the Upper West Side. Certain members of the UWS community are actively trying to relocate shelter residents, who are majority black and brown men, to overcrowded shelters elsewhere in the city, thereby increasing their risk of exposure to the virus. This group of Upper West Siders have raised exorbitant amounts of money to pay legal fees to remove shelter residents, funds which could be better put to use by service providers for homeless New Yorkers. Yes to supporting shelter residents. Yes to allocating funds to support our new neighbors. Yes to compassion in our backyard. If you support this cause, visit UWSstrong.org to sign their open letter to the city and join us on Saturday.