Willow Ave Shelter — Attraction in New York

A good a place as any to remind you how far you have fallen in life. I was at Bellevue Men's Shelter when Hurricane Sandy hit. We were all dispersed to different shelters, I to Willow. Not three days later we from Bellevue were given Metrocards and ordered to return to Bellevue despite the fact it was incapacitated due to flooding. Back at Bellevue, the city's main intake facility, we were met by locked gates, no signs and no personnel to direct us somewhere elsewhere. We were now street-homeless. Willow, then run by Palladia, was a dreary, run-down place, no different from the others. But to me Willow was a reality check in homelessness and powerlessness and I never forgot that seven years on. Thank you DHS (and your money-hungry contract partners) for a totally humiliating and debilitating experience. There ought to be that quote by Dante on a sign affixed above the front door: "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." Prison, by comparison, was a breeze. [Note: I am constrained to award this facility one star, because a half-star is not available.] If there is an award for rock-bottom homeless shelter care, this is a...

Well this shelter is a mess they are so bad I had paper showing that I have a disability gave them proof and still the didn’t want to help me w a voucher because I had to work I was with a male as a room mate that not supposed to happen yea thoe when I complain to the case manager an safe Harrizon the said you can be with a male if this suppost be a DV shelter a. Female is supposed to be with a female not a male I had to sheet the bathroom and kitchen I would not tell anyone to go there I left to get help else were because the had me running back and forth of my trying to get a voucher I lost 3 apartments because they didn’t gave the voucher didn’t even put the paperwork I left I don’t recommen nobody to go there I also had to go to the hospital when I said that I need it to go they said we gonna mark you absent if you are looking for a shelter don’t go there this shelter is in 138 street...

Doing research and looking for a proper shelter with living conditions fit for an adult.

This shelter gives an immediate response of "You're welcome." Not with compassion or love. I cannot imagine how the residents are living, this is based off a Google search.

This is a NO. Do not refer or keep residents in this shelter and lay off staff please. Thank you, you can visibly tell these conditions are not meeting required standards to prevent and help people.

Stop housing our people like we don't live in the 21st century. Arrest staff that blame residents and let shelter get worse. Renovate shelters and keep...