NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- A New York state senator is accusing the Salvation Army of trying to cash in on Manhattan's hot real estate market at the expense of poor women.
State Sen. Liz Krueger says nearly 200 women, many of them elderly and low-income, are being evicted from a pair of buildings the Salvation Army owns in Manhattan, The New York Daily News reports.
The buildings were donated to the Salvation Army decades ago specifically to provide housing for women of modest income.
On Tuesday, lawyers for the Salvation Army hand-delivered 30-day eviction notices to tenants in the two single-room occupancy hotels, one on East 39th Street and the other in Gramercy Park.
The Gramercy Park building could go for more than $100 million while the 39th Street building is expected to fetch a lower price.
"We're going to redeploy are assets and move them to where they can do the most good," says Laura DeBuys, director of communications for the Salvation Army of Greater New York.
