Earlier this week, the owners of two Upper West Side
single-room occupancy buildings -- Dexter House and Hotel Alexander -- that also serve as hotels filed suit to block a state law which would ban apartment rentals of less than 30 days.
In addition, the project aims to revive a long-disregarded housing type
single-room occupancy now found only in a few aging hotel buildings scattered around Portland.
The 10-story building is a former
single-room occupancy hotel that will be converted into an Ace Hotel, and possibly luxury residential condominiums as well.
The center will have 25 dormitory-style emergency beds and 15 beds in
single-room occupancy space.
The building isn't licensed to be a hotel; the certificate of occupancy is valid only for
single-room occupancy apartments, deeming it "illegal use in a residential district," according to an inspector's note on the Department of Buildings website.
The other three buildings would be
single-room occupancy structures, each containing two living units, two shared bathrooms and one shared kitchen.
Kelly, commissioner of Inspectional Services, said the city stabilized - that is, kept or made inhabitable - 27 units of housing and 65
single-room occupancy units through the receivership program during 2011.
The Ace's top two floors, meanwhile, will house people who have lived in the building in recent years, when the hotel was a
single-room occupancy facility, and who are choosing to stay put, according to GFI Development Company, the project's Manhattan-based developer.
The Parc Lincoln--originally a
single-room occupancy property--is home to Cesca, a popular restaurant frequented by Yoko Ono, who has a private table there.
Zadig, will be used for "
single-room occupancy," with a total of 16 bedrooms, with shared bathrooms and kitchens on each floor, Ms.
139th St., a four-story
single-room occupancy building in New York City, for $355,000.
Acquisition financing for $499,999 for a five-story, non-elevator building containing eight Class A apartments and eight
single-room occupancy units located in New York, NY.
