Safe Haven at Susan’s Place
By Heather Appel |
April 19th, 2007 | Share This
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Print- Published in: Mount Hope Monitor
Photo By: J. Fergusson/Mount Hope Monitor
SUSAN SAVES: Susan’s Place, a transitional residence for homeless women, is set to open in July on 177th Street and Jerome Avenue.
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If you’re a single woman looking for emergency housing in the Bronx, you have limited options for getting off the street. There are only three intake shelters for single women in the city, and only one of those, the Franklin Armory, is in the Bronx. If all three are full, your next best option is a drop-in center, where there are no beds, so people sleep in chairs — often for up to two weeks at a time.
