City can move homeless men from Lucerne Hotel to downtown, court rules

The city can move forward with its plan to relocate a group of homeless men from the Upper West Side Lucerne Hotel to a downtown hotel, an appellate court ruled Thursday.

The city’s plans to move some 200 homeless men at the Lucerne to a Radisson hotel downtown has been repeatedly stalled, thanks to an October lawsuit filed by downtown residents that’s been winding its way through the courts. Three formerly homeless Lucerne residents also sought to stop the transfer and appealed a lower court ruling allowing the city to go forward with the move.