More hotel roulette for homeless

They don’t want them, either.

Days after the city announced it would remove homeless men from a luxury Upper West Side hotel, lower Manhattan residents are pushing back against the decision to shift the men to a permanent facility in their neighborhood.

On Friday, the Department of Homeless Services said it would transfer clients temporarily living at the Lucerne Hotel on W. 79th St. to the Radisson Hotel on William St. near Pine St. in the Financial District.

“This shelter is expected to receive over 240 homeless men from the Lucerne Hotel in the immediate future. This will not be a temporary ‘COVID-19 homeless shelter’ as Mayor Bill de Blasio has mentioned over and over again — this will be permanent,” reads a post on the Downtown NYCers for Safe Streets website.

“Our neighborhood already has over ten hotels being utilized as shelters, and now with the Radisson turning into a permanent location, we need to come up with solutions.”

DHS spokesman Isaac McGinn said the four-star Radisson hotel will be converted into a permanent homeless shelter facility. He said it would be the first of its kind in the neighborhood.

The decision was praised in part by homelessness advocacy groups because it meant residents of the Harmonia Hotel homeless shelter on E. 31st St, many of whom are disabled, could stay put. They faced eviction early in September to make room for the men staying at the Lucerne.

Downtown residents sympathize with the men staying at the Lucerne, according to Matthew Colpitts, director of security at Léman Manhattan Prep School. He told the Daily News their issue is with the city’s chaotic handling of a vulnerable population.

“It’s definitely not a coldhearted thing. Most of the people involved are really coming at this from good faith,” he said. “I think the particular location of that Radisson, you know, it’s right in the heart of several residential buildings as well as the schools that are quite literally a rock’s throw from it.”