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  March 02, 2022 I Love The Upper West Side

  VIDEO: Fortune Society Execs Field Questions — Some Heated — About 258 West 97th Street

  At Community Board 7′s housing committee meeting on Monday evening, executives from The Fortune Society presented the non-profit’s plans to convert 258 West 97th Street into supportive housing for formerly incarcerated individuals as well as low-income residents. The project will be called Castle IV.

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  March 01, 2022 West Side Rag

  The Community Responds to the Supportive Housing Program Coming to West 97th Street

  Residents of the upper west 90s expressed open-mindedness — laced with worry — about the new permanent supportive housing program being created at 258 W. 97th Street, which previously was an illegal hotel.

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  March 02, 2022 City Limits

  Dilapidated Apartments, Lousy Landlords Plague NYC’s Sprawling ‘Scattered-Site’ Supportive Housing Network

  There are some 16,000 scattered-site supportive housing units across the city, rented and overseen by nonprofits contracted to provide services to tenants. But outdated contracts that trail actual market rents mean the organizations—and the state and city agencies that fund them—are propping up some of the city’s worst housing.

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  February 24, 2022 West Side Rag

  Award-Winning Nonprofit Details Plans for New Supportive Housing Coming to 97th Street: ‘Ask Us Anything’

  The Fortune Society has a message for Upper West Siders with concerns about its new permanent supportive housing program being created at 258 W. 97th Street: Ask us anything.

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  February 23, 2022 Off The Grid

  Taking a Closer Look at “Fortune and Men’s Eyes”

  Telling the stories of incarcerated young men in the 1960s, Fortune and Men’s Eyes was a drama written by John Herbert in 1967 to process and analyze his own experience in Canada’s prison system

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  February 21, 2022 Newsday

  Study: Over half of jobless men had arrest records by 35, hindering prospects

  More than half of unemployed young men in the United States, including thousands on Long Island, have some sort of a criminal record by their mid-30s, according to new research.

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