Highland Park keeps Bentley Hotel open as taxpayer-funded shelter housing 197 despite mayoral closure order
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered the city’s last HERRC closed, but Highland Park Community Development Corporation continued operating the Bentley Hotel at 500 E. 62nd St.
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KEY FACTS
- Highland Park Community Development Corporation operates the Bentley Hotel at 500 E. 62nd St. under a taxpayer-funded contract and says it is housing 197 people.
- The Bentley Hotel previously housed displaced shelter residents during May 2020 pandemic relocations and later served as a migrant shelter under a $32 million contract with Highland Park Community Development Corporation.
- The Bentley resurfaced as a HERRC in 2023 to receive asylum seekers, and although Mayor Mamdani ordered the last HERRC closed this year, the Bentley remained open and was rebranded as a "Tier 2 family shelter."
- Neighbors and Community Board 8 say they received no public notice about the Bentley's continued operation or its rebranding.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered the city’s last Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center (HERRC) in The Bronx to be shuttered by the end of this year.
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Brief
Highland Park Community Development Corporation is operating the Bentley Hotel at 500 E. 62nd St. as a taxpayer-funded shelter housing 197 people, and neighbors say the city kept them uninformed. Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered the city’s last HERRC closed this year, but the Bentley was rebranded as a "Tier 2 family shelter" without public notice to Community Board 8.
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