Judge Rules NYC Can Move Men's Homeless Shelter To East Village

NEW YORK CITY — A state judge ruled on Wednesday that the city can relocate a men's homeless shelter from Midtown to the East Village.

Local residents in a lawsuit had argued that there was no public review and that city officials skipped notice requirements and used emergency executive orders for the relocation.

Supreme Court Judge Sabrina Kraus dismissed those claims and lifted a temporary restraining order she had previously issued to pause the relocation.

The decision now allows the Mamdani administration move along with its plan to move an intake shelter from a building near Bellevue Hospital on East 30th Street to a smaller location in the East Village.

The planned intake shelter was first expected to be open on May 1. The East Village building at 8 E. 3rd St. already serves as a homeless shelter for men with substance abuse problems.

For years, conditions at Bellevue had been allowed to deteriorate, making this transition both necessary and urgent,” he said. “Past administrations discussed closing this facility but failed to get it done. This administration followed through," Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement.