Inside a Once-Grand Building That Housed the Vulnerable for a Century

This reporting illustrates one of the core claims of my new project on Bellevue and immigration - that institutions and their logics have afterlives. Even when they're renamed and reimagined, they haunt what follows.

Inside a Once-Grand Building That Housed the Vulnerable for a Century A shelter for men near Bellevue Hospital is closing. It is a symbol of an approach to homelessness that the Mamdani administration hopes to leave behind. April 27, 2026 Elizabeth A. Harris www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/n...