25 Men Lock Themselves in Hotel Rooms, Refusing Transfer to Homeless Shelter
Photo: Craig Warga/Bloomberg via Getty Images On Friday morning, dozens of unhoused New Yorkers holding trash bags full of their belongings boarded several school buses in front of the Four Points by Sheraton hotel in Midtown. After staying there for as long as 16 months, around 150 people were being moved back to shelters as the city program to place homeless New Yorkers in hotels during the pandemic draws to a close. But 25 residents locked themselves in their rooms and refused to leave. They said that between the highly contagious Delta variant and the fact that just...