Thousands of homeless New Yorkers finally being moved from city hotels

Thousands of homeless New Yorkers are finally being moved from city hotels and back into shelters this week.

The exodus — announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio last week — will ultimately see around 8,000 homeless people in total moved out of 60 hotels. One of the first to be cleared was the Lucerne, the Upper West Side hotel that was a lightning rod for locals’ complaints about the area getting overrun and concerns about crime.