HRA Men's Shelter — Local services in New York

Worst place ever and no safety or precautions regarding spreading diseases in building. I got transmitted pneumonia and flu from roommate , I begged them in medical facility to check on my roommate noone cared. I explained to them it's a serious medical situation and my roommate may spread it an transmitted to others, even I asked them to issue a contained alert and start blockage around building so my roommate viral virus not spread and transmitted to others, the nurse guy were upset and replied to me in angry way. In day 4 I stoped security female was checking on our room and asked her to call EMS for him. After 2 days immediately I got sick too because of infection roommate spread inside room. I text my roommate asking him what he got because he got isolated in Bellevue hospital, he text me back that he got pneumonia and Corona and Flu. I went to same hospital Bellevue hospital 🏥 he been isolated in and begged them to help me they gave me some pain killer and fabricated a report of viral infection something n and fire me to leave while am suffering and not able to walk, they called security to kick me out. They didn't even take any sample of blood or nose swap. Is this suppose to happen normally in New York most civilized city in United States of America. Just tell me what I should do when I see innocent people inside this shelter being servied kind of food which made them sick wiz same symptoms and signs over an over. I was sick because of this kind of food and I reported it even I mention it to Bellevue hospital financial department, begging the guy who helped me to do something. Is this what I suppose to got from being an upright person by defending innocent people from getting harmed and trying to help these innocent people to get proper help. I Almost was close to dye on my bed and no one in whole shelter building cared to help me. What happening in this world, dose humanity despaired. People life not matter as much as money, the paper we people invented and created to help us bargain and interact wiz each other became much more important than people themselves lives. People lives became the commodity instead of the commodity money 🤑🤑🤑. That's not what we people sign up for , our lives not a commodity. We need our lives back and everything return back to it's right positioned value. Our lives not a commodity and will never be a commodity. Try yourself to buy with $100,000,000.00 one day ans add it to your life. People need to wake up, that's a clear brain washing to control people lives. Please correct me if am I wrong. Tody on 01/19/2024, thy had some major inspection from New York City homeless department. I came back after long day searching for a job with no positive out come and no job found. On my bed they placed a letter seeing I lost my bed because I wasn't sleeping on my bed by 11 o'clock yesterday which not true, I were on my bed slept so early because I had to wake up early to search for a job. But they wanted to reach me a lesson for opening my mouth and speaking up against wrong things happening inside this shelter towards innocent people. When I checked with office for bed the man said I lost my bed and my bed was assigned to someone which not true. I were on my bed and all this happened to me because of my review. Even they asked me to wait inside waiting lounge from 07:30 pm until 11:00pm to see if they will have any spare beds by this time. Main while my bed wasn't assigned to anyone and were available in the spread sheet on front of the office guy. But I didn't argue with him and followed instructions. Inside lounge room two African American elder men talked to me and expressed their concerns too, they saw rats 🐀 and cockroaches 🪳 inside the building. One of them said they have many available beds on fifth, second and first floors. If this really true I asked him , thy guy swore it's true and took me by hand an show me available beds. What made me really sad , I went back to office responsible for a signing bed and asked him for any available bed 🛏️ , he lied and said no...

Sixth floor alumnus. A most informative period of my life, spent here and at other DHS facilities too.

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UPDATE (June 2, 2025): I haven't lived here since March 20th, but lasted seven weeks. A friend stepped up to help me with their couch when I told them my computer was stolen by a staff member with a lock cutter, and nobody helped me, not even the "cops" downstairs. It is better to sleep on the street. Avoid this criminal dump and the entire DHS system at ANY cost. Original review below:'

This is not a place you wish to end up. But for someone in an unfortunate situation who is educated, motivated and doing my job to improve my standing, I appreciate that it's a roof and a bed and its food. That counts for a lot.

The problem lies mostly with the attitudes of the staff, primarily the administrative support staff and FSA / FJC security.

It does not matter how you approach most of them, or how you ask a question. They respond immediately with impatience, condescension and suspicion, as if you are stupid and untrustworthy to even be asking it.

They pick fights over non-issues and simple misunderstandings, and I've experienced everything from shouting and belittling to behind-the-back shit talk.

This review is my notice that I don't need to be treated like that and neither do you. Every incident of disrespect to me will result in a formal grievance report against the employee in question. It is my legal right as a client of this shelter to do so without fear of recrimination. It is also yours.

Most of the men in this shelter are disenfranchised by society in ways I am not. I respect that some of these clients are difficult to deal with and behave problematically. The staff don't always have an easy job.

However, it makes me angry that so many staff clearly see the clients here, and speak to us, as if we must be hopeless, or beneath them. It is the polar opposite tact than what responsible and qualified social workers should do.

The truth is that they are all as lucky as anyone is not to be in our shoes. "There but for the grace of God go I."

It is their mistake if they think they can speak down to me, bully me, and pick nonsense arguments with me, and that I won't speak up - not only for myself, but for all the clients here...