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A Shelter’s Closing Is a Turning Point for Homeless Policy
The 30th Street shelter next to Bellevue Hospital has served homeless men for decades.
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James Barron
April 28, 2026,
5:04 a.m. ET
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Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll get a look inside an intake center for homeless men that the city plans to close. We’ll also find out why the Rikers Island jail complex has video games for people incarcerated there.
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A city shelter near Bellevue Hospital is closing. The homeless men who were staying there have already been transferred to other shelters. Inside the building, on 30th Street, is an intake center where people go to be assigned to a bed elsewhere.
The city’s plan is to move the intake center to a building in the East Village that has been serving as a shelter for homeless men with substance abuse problems. Neighbors there are fighting the move. Last week a judge temporarily blocked the plan.
When the city announced the closing of the 30th Street shelter, it said the building was in a “severe state of disrepair.”
My colleague Elizabeth A. Harris, who covers homelessness for the Metro desk, got a look inside the building
. I asked her about what she saw — and what closing it would mean for the city’s shelter system.
The 30th Street shelter has served as the front door to the city’s shelter system for adult men for more than 40 years. Can the system handle the change?
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