City to open Soho homeless shelter

The city plans to open a homeless shelter in Soho, which is already atwitter over the de Blasio administration’s proposal to upzone the ritzy neighborhood. The Department of Social Services would house 200 men in a converted garage at 349 Canal Street. It would be the first permanent shelter in Manhattan’s Community Board 2, which covers Soho, Greenwich Village, the West Village, Noho and Little Italy. “This high-quality facility will be the first shelter of