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Alexander Abraham Residence
Type: SHELTER
341 West 51st Street
The Alexander Abraham
Residence provides shelter and support services for homeless women
who have been victims of domestic violence and their children who have
been referred through the City's Emergency Assistance Unit. The shelter
is run by Women in Need.
Allerton House Hotel
Type: SHELTER
302 West 22nd Street
The Allerton House Hotel is a Tier II shelter for homeless families
referred by the City's Emergency Assistance Unit.
American Red Cross of Greater New York
Type: SHELTER
150 Amsterdam Avenue, 787-1000
The Red Cross operates two Tier II shelters for homeless families
referred to them by the City's Emergency Assistance Unit. One of these,
the Emergency Family Shelter, is located in Clinton (515 West 41st Street).
It serves primarily single mothers and their children, and provides
an array of supportive services.
Barbour Hotel
Type: SHELTER
330 West 36th Street
This is a transitional housing facility operated by Praxis Housing Initiatives.
It serves people with HIV/AIDS under contract to the City's Division
of AIDS Services and Income Support (DASIS). It provides services on
site, including harm reduction, counseling, and programs for substance
abusers and the mentally ill.
Bowery Residents' Commitee, Project Rescue
Type: OUTREACH, SERVICES
315 Bowery, 533-5656
Project Rescue
is a citywide homeless outreach service that contacts homeless people
living on the streets and offers them access to appropriate services.
The Mobile Outreach unit operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It
can be dispatched to a particular location via a call to BRC's 24 hour
Homeless Assistance Line, which homeless people can also call for assistance.
BRC also operates a drop in
center on the Bowery which provides counseling, medical care, meals,
showers, and laundry facilities. As of March, 2002, use of BRC's Project
Rescue services was up 53% from the previous year.
Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS)
Type: SERVICES, FOOD PANTRY
120 Wall Street, 25th Floor, 389-9300
CUCS provides supportive services
in several supporting housing projects around the City, including those
owned by Common Ground (see
below). CUCS also runs a food pantry at 255 West 43rd Street.
Clinton Family Inn
Type: SHELTER
521 West 49th Street
The
Clinton Family Inn is a Tier II shelter for homeless families referred
by the City's Emergency Assistance Unit. The shelter is run by Homes
for the Homeless.
Clinton Housing Development Corporation
Type: PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
454 W. 35th St., 300 W. 46th St., 353-355 W. 30th St., 415 W. 40th St.
CHDC operates several SROs that provide affordable housing and support
services to the formerly homeless elderly, the mentally ill, and people
with HIV/AIDS.
Common Ground
Type: PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
505 8th Avenue, 5th Floor, 389-9300
Common Ground is developing the Chelsea Residence at the site of the
former McBurney YMCA, which will provide supportive housing for homeless,
mentally ill adults (50% of the units) and for low-income working people
(50% of the units). The building will also house a "Foyer Program"
for 40 young people. Common Ground owns, and manages several other buildings
that provide supportive housing, including the Times Square at 255 West
23rd Street.
Covenant House New York
Type: OUTREACH, SERVICES, DROP-IN CENTER
460 West 41st Street, 613-0300
Covenant House is a nationwide, multi-service agency targeting at-risk
youth. Their Crisis Center, located in Clinton, provides food, clothing,
shelter, counseling, and crisis services to any young person under the
age of 21. It is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a year. Covenant House
also operates an Outreach Van that provides food, clothing, counseling
and referrals to youth living on the streets.
The Dwelling Place
Type: SHELTER, SOUP KITCHEN
409 West 40th Street, 564-7887
The Dwelling Place is a soup kitchen and temporary shelter for homeless
adult women.
Flemister House
Type: PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
527 West 22nd Street
Housing for people with HIV and AIDS.
Frederick Fleming House
Type: PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
443 West 22nd Street
Provides long-term residential care to 47 elderly, mentally ill, formerly
homeless adults, under contract to New York State. Sponsored by West
Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing.
FROST'D From Our Streets with Dignity
Type: OUTREACH, SERVICES, SOUP KITCHEN, MEDICAL CARE, CLOTHING
369 8th Ave - clinic
224 West 30th Street, 924-3733 - main office
Three mobile outreach vans provide case management, food, clothing,
condoms, and bleach to homeless people and others on the street. Primary
care and case management services are offered at 369 8th Avenue. The
administrative office is at 224 West 30th Street.
Gay Men's Health Crisis
Type: SOUP KITCHEN
119 West 24th Street, 367-1270
Gay Men's Health Crisis is a full-service organization for People With
AIDS and the HIV+. Among many other services, registered clients with
proof of HIV status may take advantage of the meals program, which feeds
about 300 clients daily. The program serves a wide range of people,
including but not limited to the homeless.
Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen
Type: SERVICES, SOUP KITCHEN, MEDICAL CARE, LEGAL ASSISTANCE, ADVOCACY
296 Ninth Avenue, 807-6799
The Soup Kitchen partners with several other non-profits and government
agencies to provide services to their clients. Medical vans, legal staff,
HIV/AIDS outreach workers, and benefits counselors regularly visit the
site. Holy Apostles also runs a writers' workshop and bible study sessions
for its clients, and engages in political advocacy.
Maria's Kitchen
Type: FOOD PANTRY, SOUP KITCHEN
415 W. 59th St., 397-7222
This is an informal feeding program that provides a hot meal and a pantry
bag with an additional meal to anyone who comes to their door - there
are no rules for receiving a meal and no other services provided. Clientele
is mostly unemployed men but also includes some women with families
and some elderly. They serve about 500 meals each month and demand has
increased by about 10 - 15% over the past year.
Metro Baptist Church
Type: FOOD PANTRY, CLOTHING
410 West 40th Street, 594-4464
The church operates a food pantry on Saturdays and a clothes closet
on Tuesday. The majority of its clients are displaced families living
in homeless shelters.
Metropolitan Community Church
Type: FOOD PANTRY, SOUP KITCHEN
446 West 36th Street, 629-7440
The church food pantry provides nutritionally appropriate groceries
to People With AIDS Tuesday - Friday. On Thursdays it also provides
a general grocery bag to the first 100 people who arrive. The soup kitchen
serves lunches to anyone who comes Tuesday - Friday, 2-3pm. It also
serves a community dinner on the last Tuesday of each month and a dinner
for members of the transgendered community on the last Thursday of each
month. The transgendered clients they serve tend to be homeless prostitutes.
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Midtown Community Court
Type: OUTREACH, SERVICES
314 West 54th Street, 646-264-1315
In addition to criminal-justice related functions, Midtown Community
Court provides social services, including on-site drug treatment, primary
care, ESL classes, and job training. The Court also runs a homelessness
outreach program that can be dispatched to contact street homeless and
offer them access to services. It also provides short-term counseling
and referrals to walk-ins.
Momentum AIDS Project
Type: SERVICES, SOUP KITCHEN, FOOD PANTRY
155 West 23rd Street - main office
St. Paul the Apostle Church - West 59th Street and 9th Avenue
Momentum provides nutritious meals and groceries to the HIV positive
and People With AIDS. A full range of social services are provided in
the same location that a group meal is served, in order to provide a
one-stop-shop for clients. Meals are served in a different location
each day of the week. One day of the week is at St. Paul the Apostle.
New York City Coalition Against Hunger
Type: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, ADVOCACY
16 Beaver Street, 3rd Floor, 825-0028
New York City Coalition Against Hunger is a network of over 1000 food
pantries and soup kitchens. It provides technical assistance to pantries
and kitchens, helps them connect clients to government benefits, and
advocates for political solutions to hunger.
Partnership for the Homeless
Type: SERVICES, SHELTER, DROP-IN CENTER
305 Seventh Avenue, 645-3444
The Partnership provides services, advocacy, legal assistance, and supportive
housing to homeless and formerly homeless people. Within Community Board
No. 4, the Partnership operates Peter's Place (305 7th Ave. 13th Floor),
a 24-hour multi-service center for seniors that provides a range of
services, including food, clothing, showers, counseling, medical and
psychiatric care, legal assistance, emergency shelter, and a Transitions
program which helps clients find and keep permanent housing.
Project O.R.E.
Type: SERVICES, SOUP KITCHEN, FOOD PANTRY, CLOTHING, DROP-IN CENTER
236 West 23rd Street, 780-5436
This program is operated by the Educational Alliance out of Congregation
Emunath Israel. It provides a range of services to middle-aged and elderly
people who are homeless or otherwise isolated. The population served
is predominantly Jewish. Project O.R.E. includes breakfast and lunch
daily, counseling, a food pantry, a clothes closet, group social activities,
and access to phones and a mailing address.
Project Renewal
Type: OUTREACH, PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, SERVICES, DROP-IN CENTER
Holland House: 351 West 42nd Street, 245-6600
Clinton Residence: 448 West 48th Street, 582-1133
Project Renewal runs two permanent supportive housing facilities within
Community Board No. 4. These two residences serve the formerly homeless
and the mentally ill, among others. The Clinton Residence also includes
a drop-in center. Project Renewal also provides mobile outreach services
to the homeless in conjunction with Bowery Residents Committee, the
Times Square BID, and AMTRAK. Outreach efforts include a mobile medical
van and a mobile psychiatric team that serves City shelters and drop-in
centers.
Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ
Type: SOUP KITCHEN, FOOD PANTRY, CLOTHING
457 West 51st Street, 265-5020
Lunch is served Monday-Friday, 12:30 - 1pm. Food pantry provides canned
goods to needy families.
Safe Horizon
Type: OUTREACH, SERVICES, SOUP KITCHEN, MEDICAL CARE, DROP-IN CENTER
545 Eighth Avenue, 22nd Floor, 695-2220
Safe Horizon works with homeless youth up to the age of 23, who are
living on the streets. They provide lunch, showers, counseling, mental
health care, and medical care at the drop-in center. If clients attend
a group they can also receive dinner. Safe Horizon also does outreach,
primarily in the Times Square area, via foot patrols and a van and will
take requests to send out an outreach worker.
St. Clements Episcopal Church
Type: FOOD PANTRY
The church operates a food pantry on Saturdays from 9:30 - 11:00am that
is open to anyone. It is now averaging 600 bags of food each week, which
is up 30% just in the past few months. During the winter those waiting
on line to pick up food are also provided with a light breakfast.
St. Francis Friends of the Poor
TypeL PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
Residence II: 155 West 22nd Street; Residence III: 148 Eighth Avenue,
206-1341
These two facilities provides permanent supportive housing for the mentally
ill and formerly homeless.
St. Francis Xavier Church
Type: FOOD PANTRY, SOUP KITCHEN, SHELTER
30 West 16th Street, 627-2100
The church operates a 12 bed emergency shelter for homeless men who
are referred by John Heuss House, which is a drop-in center run out
of Trinity Church downtown. They also operate a soup kitchen on Sundays
and a food pantry on the second Saturday of each month. Finally, the
church provides life skills education and mentoring to homeless and
formerly homeless adults.
St. John's Bread of Life
Type: SERVICES, FOOD PANTRY, CLOTHING
211 West 30th Street, 564-9070
St. Luke's Lutheran Church
Type: SOUP KITCHEN, SHELTER
308 West 46th Street, 246-3540
The soup kitchen serves lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The church
also operates a small emergency homeless shelter under the umbrella
of the Times Square Consortium.
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St. Paul's House Inc.
Type: FOOD PANTRY, SOUP KITCHEN, CLOTHING
335 West 51st Street, 265-5435
The soup kitchen operates everyday but Tuesday from 7am - 8:30am. Tuesdays
at 10am they operate the food pantry and distribute clothing. They have
noticed increased demand.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Type: FOOD PANTRY
346 West 20th Street, 929-2390
St. Peter's operates a food pantry five days/week, from 10am - noon,
that serves predominantly low-income families who live in the community,
some of whom are homeless. Clients must have a referral and can only
use the pantry twice/month. Additionally, on Saturdays from 10am - 11:30am
no referral is needed.
Salvation Army, New York Temple
132 West 14th Street, 242-7770
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Type: SHELTER, FOOD PANTRY, CLOTHING
422 West 57th Street, 757-0675
Trinity operates a homeless shelter at this site in conjunction with
Partnership for the Homeless. They also run a food pantry and clothes
closet on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons that serves the elderly (predominantly
Latino) and women with children. On Saturday nights, elderly clients,
many of whom are under-housed and formerly homeless, can come in for
a hot meal and socializing.
Urban Pathways
Type: OUTREACH, SERVICES, SHELTER, DROP-IN CENTER
575 8th Avenue, 9th Floor, 465-0975
Urban Pathways provides services, outreach, drop-in centers, and supportive
housing to homeless and formerly homeless individuals. Many of their
programs and facilities are located in or near Community Board No. 4,
including:
A.D.E. - outreach to service resistance homeless along 8th and
9th Avenues
Operation Alternative - counseling and referrals, located at
the Port Authority Bus Terminal
The Open Door - drop-in center, 402 West 42nd Street
Antonio G. Olivieri Center for Homeless Women - drop-in center
near Penn Station
The Travelers Hotel - supportive housing transitional residence
in Times Square
Ivan Shapiro House - long-term supportive housing, at 459 West
46th Street
ESTEEM - vocational training and literacy/GED program, located
at 575 8th Avenue
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