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  February 17, 2022 New York Yimby

  Mayor Adams Shutters Illegal Hotel At 258 West 97th Street, Announces New Affordable Housing Building On Upper West Side

  New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced plans to construct a new 82-unit affordable housing property at 258 West 97th Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

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  February 16, 2022 West Side Rag

  City Touts Victory Over ‘Illegal Hotel Operator’ with $2M in Fines, 82 Affordable Units Planned; But Owner Has Sold the Buildings for Over $70M

  On Monday, Mayor Eric Adams and the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) issued a press release announcing the City had “shut down illegal hotel operator” Hank Freid, concluding a protracted legal battle. 

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  February 16, 2022 Queens Daily Eagle

  Queens org. to build affordable housing at site of illegal hotel

  A Queens nonprofit has been tapped to lead an affordable housing project in the Upper West Side after the city shut down an illegal hotel operator in the neighborhood earlier this week.

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  February 16, 2022 6SQFT

  Former illegal Upper West Side hotel will become apartments for homeless and low income residents

  As part of a larger plan to create much-needed affordable housing, Mayor Eric Adams has expressed his support for converting hotels to residential units.

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  February 15, 2022 Queens Daily Eagle

  Fortune Society exec. talks criminal justice reform

  For the past seven months, Stanley Richards saw the dysfunction on Rikers Island first-hand, on a daily basis.

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