A Manhattan judge said on Wednesday that the city cannot open its East Village homeless men’s intake center on May 1 as planned after residents filed a lawsuit Monday alleging it was rushed forward without enough public review.
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Sabrina Kraus ruled that the city must hold off opening the intake facility until at least May 7, the date she set to hear oral arguments on whether Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s executive order to convert the existing shelter facility into an intake center was a violation of his authority.
