Natural Citizen
11-20-2014, 07:33 PM
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Reuters/Ismail Zitouny
A New York City hotel was not pleased when it set aside 100 rooms for a “government group” only to find out that scores of homeless people were going to occupy them for more than a week.
In fact, the Radisson Hotel in Queens was upset enough to ban New York’s Department of Homeless Services (DHS) from booking rooms there any time in the future.
The whole situation unfolded after a city representative called the hotel in October to reserve 100 rooms for a “government group” in November. That phrase is typically one that hotels love to hear, especially in slow months, but when DHS called to confirm the details of its 10-day reservation, Radisson general manager Pierre Merhej was caught off guard.
"We didn't know it was homeless residents...
Continued - NYC reserves 100 rooms for homeless, gets banned by hotel (http://rt.com/usa/207475-nyc-hotel-homeless-rooms/)
Relevant reading - Navy vet/Hotel Employee: I was fired, called ‘terrorist’ for posting photos of DHS vehicles nr Ferguson (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?463381-Navy-vet-to-RT-I-was-fired-called-‘terrorist’-for-posting-photos-of-DHS-vehicles-nr-Ferguson&p=5706104&viewfull=1#post5706104)
Reuters/Ismail Zitouny
A New York City hotel was not pleased when it set aside 100 rooms for a “government group” only to find out that scores of homeless people were going to occupy them for more than a week.
In fact, the Radisson Hotel in Queens was upset enough to ban New York’s Department of Homeless Services (DHS) from booking rooms there any time in the future.
The whole situation unfolded after a city representative called the hotel in October to reserve 100 rooms for a “government group” in November. That phrase is typically one that hotels love to hear, especially in slow months, but when DHS called to confirm the details of its 10-day reservation, Radisson general manager Pierre Merhej was caught off guard.
"We didn't know it was homeless residents...
Continued - NYC reserves 100 rooms for homeless, gets banned by hotel (http://rt.com/usa/207475-nyc-hotel-homeless-rooms/)
Relevant reading - Navy vet/Hotel Employee: I was fired, called ‘terrorist’ for posting photos of DHS vehicles nr Ferguson (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?463381-Navy-vet-to-RT-I-was-fired-called-‘terrorist’-for-posting-photos-of-DHS-vehicles-nr-Ferguson&p=5706104&viewfull=1#post5706104)