Please note that the resources listed on this page are not provided by NCS and are subject to change. Click here to learn more about NCS’s Street Sheets, neighborhood-specific guides to resources and services for New Yorkers facing homelessness.

General Information

Outreach

• IN AN EMERGENCY, DIAL 911.

• Department of Homeless Services/311: If you need help or would like to get help for someone else and it is not an emergency, contact 311 by phone or the NYC 311 app.  

• For outreach in the subways, Grand Central Station and Penn Station, call the BRC 24-hour Homeless Helpline: 212-533-5151

NCS Resources to Print

• Download NCS’s Street Sheet, a neighborhood-specific guide to free meal programs, drop-in centers, outreach programs, homeless shelters, medical care, and other services:

  • Upper East Side: English and Spanish

  • Upper West Side: English and Spanish

  • Midtown Manhattan: English and Spanish

  • Downtown Manhattan: English and Spanish

Click the photo to view a listing of resources and services in each Manhattan neighborhood.

Each guide includes:

• homeless shelter intake centers

• free neighborhood meals

• drop-in centers

• food and clothing pantries

• public showers

• crisis intervention and substance abuse hotlines

• legal aid

• medical care

Street Sheets are updated annually. Please call programs to confirm the information on the guides is correct.

Click Here to request pocket-sized versions of the guides to carry with you.

Multi-Services

• Coalition for the Homeless, 129 Fulton Street (at Nassau Street), Manhattan 212-776-2000

Shelter Intake Centers

Adult Men Only

• HRA Men's Shelter, 30th Street: 400-430 East 30th Street/First Avenue, Manhattan, 718-557-1399

Adult Women Only

• Franklin Shelter, 1122 Franklin Avenue, Bronx, 718-842-9797

• HELP Women’s Shelter, 116 Liberty Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-483-7700

Adult Families (no children under 21)

• Adult Family Intake Center (AFIC), 400-430 East 30th Street/First Avenue, Manhattan

Families with Children Under 21 (including pregnant women)

• Prevention Assistance and Temporary Housing Office (PATH), 151 East 151st Street, Bronx, 917-521-3900

Youths (including mothers with babies)

• Covenant House, 460 W. 41st St., Manhattan, 212-613-0300

24-Hour Drop-In Centers for Adults

Mainchance

120 East 32nd Street, Manhattan

The Living Room/Bronxworks

800 Barrow Street, Bronx

Olivieri Center/Urban Pathways

257 West 30th Street (near Penn Station), Manhattan

The Gathering Place/CAMBA

2402 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

Project Hospitality

25 Central Avenue, Staten Island