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  February 14, 2022 The Real Deal

  Hank Freid to pay city $1.1M to settle illegal hotel lawsuit

  Hotelier’s UWS building, sold to the Fortune Society last month, will be converted to affordable housing

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  February 14, 2022 I Love the Upper West Side

  Mayor Shuts Down Illegal Hotel, Plans to Convert it to Housing for Homeless, Low-Income

  The terms of the settlement state that 258 West 97th Street — which Freid has illegally operated as Royal Park International Hotel — will be transformed into “82 affordable homes for low-income and formerly homeless New Yorkers.”

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  February 14, 2022 Politico Pro

  City shuts down illegal hotel operation as part of $1.1M settlement

  An illegal hotel operator on the Upper West Side is on the hook for $1.1 million in penalties, as part of a settlement with the Adams administration to shut down a short-term rental operation.

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  February 14, 2022 NYC.Gov

  Mayor Adams Shuts Down Illegal Hotel Operator, Announces Plan to Create 80 new Affordable Homes on Upper West Side

  City and Fortune Society Will Partner to Create More Than 80 Affordable Homes in High-Cost Neighborhood for Low-Income and Formerly Homeless New Yorkers

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  February 10, 2022 The Guardian

  ‘They’re shut out of the market’: the struggle to rent with a criminal record

  Three-quarters of a million New Yorkers have convictions in their history. ‘Fair chance’ laws could change their lives.

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