Developer Ashkenazy Acquisitions says that homeless people have been using the public atrium at the base of the Bel-Canto condo building between West 67th and 68th streets, and is using that as a reason to try and convert it to private retail space. "Homeless people actually inhabit the earth and they have to be somewhere," said a Community Board 7 member. "We didn't view that as a reason for eliminating the space." [DNAinfo; previously]
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