New York hotel upset after city reserves rooms for homeless

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When a New York City agency booked 100 rooms at a Radisson Hotel for a "government group," the hotel was happy to oblige.

“When you say they have a government group, as hotel people, we like government groups,” the hotel's general manager Pierre Merhej told DNAinfo .

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The hotel's welcoming attitude came to an abrupt halt, however, when it discovered that the rooms were being booked for homeless people.

New York City's Department of Homeless Services booked the rooms for 10 days to provide temporary shelter for families, while it worked on more permanent placements. Temperatures have dropped rapidly in the city in the past few weeks, making shelter an immediate concern. Read more...

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