Permits have been filed for a nine-story building to be used as a homeless shelter at 537 West 59th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Located between Amsterdam and West End Avenues, the lot is near the 59th Street subway station, serviced by the A, B, C, D, and 1 trains. W59th Shelter HDFC is listed as the owner behind the applications of the 7,560-square-foot lot. Project Renewal, a non-profit that offers housing and services for the homeless, will operate the shelter.
The proposed 98-foot-tall development will yield 44,845 square feet designated for community facility space. The building will have 200 beds for single women in dorm-style rooms, 500-square-foot medical clinic, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
Offices, an 800-square foot commercial kitchen, and programming space for social services and recreation. Shelter residents will have access to an outdoor terrace space. The concrete-based structure will also have a cellar and a 20-foot-long rear yard.
Dattner Architects is listed as the architect of record.
Demolition permits were filed in August 2022. An estimated completion date has not been announced.
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The fancy architects at Dattner are designing homeless shelters now?