Disagreement over a union contract may have led to the demise of a shelter planned for Manhattan’s Chinatown.
The planned shelter at 231 Grand Street in Chinatown would have provided 94 stabilization beds for homeless New Yorkers.The planned shelter at 231 Grand Street in Chinatown would have provided 94 stabilization beds for homeless New Yorkers.
At the center of this dispute is a contract between the property owner and the Hotel Trades Council, said Rich Maroko, president of the New York Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, a powerful union and an ally of Adams. If the hotel is sold or the building changes its use, he said, a provision in the union contract requires the new owner or management to hire the union’s workers, two dozen of whom were employed at the hotel before it closed in 2019.
“The mayor made clear to us, verbally with a friend of Housing Works […] that community opposition was not of concern to him,” King said. “But by the end of the day Monday, we had to have an agreement with the union.” But King and the building owner’s representative accused the union of blocking the shelter from moving forward in an attempt to force the owner to re-open the facility as a hotel.
The administration’s decision to drop the plans for the Grand Street shelter is a loss for the city, King said. The shelter would have provided 94 stabilization beds, a type of shelter that offers social services and fewer restrictions than dorm-style shelter.
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