Rooms at Hotel Belleclaire, located at 2175 Broadway at 77th Street, can now be booked for stays beginning on October 1. We first discovered this on hotelbelleclaire.com, and a representative from the hotel’s reservation department was able to confirm this.
The rep was unable to provide us with further information, though, as they’ve been instructed not to discuss details with the press.
We’ve left a message and sent an email to other hotel departments, and have also contacted Help USA, the non-profit which has overseen the shelter site, for comment.
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More homeless individuals would soon be relocated to Hotel Belleclaire. In July, I Love The Upper West Side first revealed that some of these new residents were convicted sex offenders with records of serious crimes against extremely young victims.
Soon after we broke this story, Helen Rosenthal vowed to have all sex offenders removed, later clarifying her position to state that “there are around 1,600 registered offenders across Manhattan, and neighborhoods cannot wall themselves off.”
However, as of writing, the New York sex offender registry shows no offenders currently residing at Hotel Belleclaire.
We will provide an update if and when anything changes with regards to Hotel Belleclaire’s open availability beginning October 1.
The discovery of this likely relocation comes shortly after lots of back and forth with The Lucerne Hotel and the future of its temporary homeless residents.
The Lucerne’s 283 homeless residents were first expected to be relocated by the end of September. But the announcement of this relocation was followed by the preparation of a lawsuit by The Legal Aid Society, a protest at The Lucerne and outside Gracie Mansion, and most recently, a temporary pause on the relocation.
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I thought i read somewhere that the owner said he would not be renewing his contract with the city as of the end of September. So this may be from the hotel itself.
Yuck. Never. Wonder if they simply moved them to other floors. Too bad it’s off my list forever
Yeah Imma pass …
No way in the world would we stay there now after all that is going on… the owners now want to go back to the way it was. Forget it!
I wonder if the owners/management plan on replacing ALL the mattresses, pillows, carpet and reupholster any chair s and/or sofas in the rooms….
Who in their right mind would ever again step foot on the premises of The Belleclaire. Should be reviews posted on all review sites alerting anyone considering at stay at The Belleclaire to avoid like the plague. Yuck is right!
Mohammad, I wonder why you would want to sabotage a business in your own neighborhood at a time of such great economic stress? Obviously, the hotel will need to be refurbished and be in compliance with public health standards. Hotels go through up and down cycles all of the time and it is not insurmountable for the Belleclaire to return to it’s previous condition and accommodate paying guests again. I can’t imagine that the deal with the city was a particularly profitable one and, in retrospect, may have been a poor decision on the part of the owners, but I hope the Belleclaire (that I can see from my apartment window) survives and wish the grand old place well.
I did not support the ill-thought policy decisions that made the placements at the Belleclaire, but the comments here are really quite spiteful.
No, Theo, they’re not spiteful comments. They’re realistic. I’m also a FORMER hotel guest of The Belleclaire, and will never go back. You’re apparently not up on the conditions of some of the rooms…and some of the mattresses. Gross. Not to mention bedbugs. They’re rife in homeless shelters. The mere thought of staying at The Belleclaire, The Lucerne or The Belnord (I’ve stayed at all three) makes my skin crawl. Did you not read where The Belleclaireis allegedly canceling the contract with the city as of September 30, 2020 and taking reservations for stays as of October 1? Doesn’t leave much time for “refurbishing,” does it, let alone a deep cleaning of each an every available guest room. There’s always Arthouse, The Excelsior and hopefully one day again, The Milburn. Don’t blame potential guests. Blame your disastrous mayor.
Yes, Kathleen, they are nasty, spiteful comments by any reasonable measure. But go ahead and hang on to your resentment and anger. That will go a long way to healing the riffs the hotel debacle caused and restoring the UWS to some normalcy (sarcasm – in case it escapes you).
A catastrophe can bring out the best or the worst in people, and clearly a disappointing number of UWS’ers chose the latter. News flash – the worst is yet to come this fall and winter. A divided neighborhood will make the resurgence of COVID all the more difficult.
Claps for Theo
Those that have been staying at the Belvedere? We have no clue who they are or what happened that they lost their jobs and their apartments. Fingers crossed this never happens to any of you smug entitled wackos.
Those that sexually abused children? Hang them by the balls until dead!
Never will stay there again… horrible decision on owner side, he deserves what he is left with now, a dingy old hotel that no longer fits in with the community or neighborhood. Serves him well…..
Shockingly nasty remarks here about both the hotel owner & the men experiencing homelessness who are staying there.
244 rooms X $175 night = 42,700
42,700X 30 days = $1,281,000 month.
Taxpayer money.
The Lucerne Hotel is not taking reservations until December 1. So it looks like the current residents will be there for a while longer.
People will not be attracted to staying at these hotels as they used to be. That’s just a Fact. If you’re looking to place blame for division on the UWS look no further than UWS Open Hearts, which is actually a Hate Group. Helen Rosenthal, Sara Lind, Linda Rosenthal, Jumaane Williams all decided to attack local residents by shouting racism. Most people saw right through the terrible programs at these hotels that severely lacked Needed Mental and Addiction Services
Looks to me like it is blocked until January 2021.
Guess our “nasty, spiteful” comments got through to them. Bleeding hearts like Theo have no clue about consumers or the expectations of hotel guests. They’d rather focus on creating divisiveness among neighbors and among out-of-town guests and themselves for their own smug reasons. OF COURSE I hope The Belleclaire et al. return to their former “glory”, but in the meantime, unless I see independently certified proof of new mattresses, box springs and pillows, as well as some new furniture (sofas, chairs and desk chairs), I won’t be returning to these hotels. Yes, that’s what they need to do to attract my business back. These hotel owners made the choice to house a population that largely and regrettably has personal hygiene issues, as well as comes from shelters that are rife with bedbugs (ask any shelter resident), so extraordinary cleaning and replacement issues are called for. Saying so is not a malicious act; it’s simply warning the business(es) that they will lose clientele until the necessary measures are taken. Which is what I expect will happen.