New York City Rescue Mission Review

Urgent:

If anyone has seen or heard from Carlos Rodriguez, he has 3 tattoos on his hand that read Ashley, Annette, Carlos he is also disabled, please tell him to contact his Daughter Ashley. We have been looking for him for a few months and last time this is where he was staying. He is Hispanic and uses a cane.

Thank you.

If your desperate, this place will at least give you a bed for 7 nights. After that, you're entered into a "lottery", giving you about a 50% chance of another 7 nights. Safer than a normal NYC shelter for sure.

People who has no money or homeless can get free and good food there and if I'm not mistaken shelter too.
The food service is till 6:30 pm

The give you a place to sleep for seven Days.
Clean bedding and a clean towel with soap to shower.
Breakfast and Dinner.
The offer counseling and, the do have a job placement program in order for you to get back on your feet again and, become successful.
The also offer a drugs and alcohol rehabilitation program for those who are struggling with alcohol and, drug addiction.
The are more strict and safe than the city's shelter system.

This is one of the most dangerous places in New York City. Cruelty and BLACK racism is their middle name. IF YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON OF GOOD MORAL CHARACTER, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR, STAY AWAY FROM THIS PLACE. YOU ARE SAFER ON A PARK SOMEWHERE.

They are a Christian based organization that helps people in need of shelter they feed you and give you and bed to sleep in. Its only short term but it beets sleeping on the streets. They have church services that are very uplifting and inspires me to not give up.thank you rescue mission for being there in my time of need!!
Mark lilly

Stayed there recently. Employees more arrogant then when i needed the place before. They saved my life in the 90's. But now the volunteer staff has elitist attitude about themselves. Talking down & even yesterday a kitchen staffer called a girl a "ho". Then denied it to the director. Same staffer would not shut up for half the nite after the lights were out. The jailed are running the place @ present. Too cliquish. Way too cliquish. They are only doing sneaky favors for each other & spouting the rules to the peasants. Eating in the bunks & trading contraband & food all nite. Not a good example for anyone that wants to volunteer there. The new volunteers just wanna get the "in" to the goodies. Not a good volunteer staff there @ all right now. Just looks like an extension of penitentiary rules & hierarchy. Not a good look for Christians.

A warm welcome for all. More than a soup kitchen, more than a hostel. This is an oasis of authentic, unconditional love bringing light to don't of the dark places of downtown Manhattan. The staff are hard working, friendly and kind.
Guests are treated with dignity from the moment they arrive and there is a desire to meet people's deepest needs.

The staff is nice. They make sure your warm and safe

Friendly and warm place to catch a meal and a bed for the night. If you've never used their services, you are guaranteed a bed for 7 days. You have to be there between 3-4pm (3pm for women;4pm for men), but you are provided dinner, shower, bed for the evening, and breakfast at 8am.

It's a clean place and you don't have to stab anybody in order to make it through the night.

This is a great place loving people. My wife and i definitely suggest this place to anyone. Great People.

The great place for Life transformation through the love of Jesus! The staff is Filled with care and a true desire to help those in need.

I never been here but I was thinking of coming..but 7 days is not enough to help someone get back on their feet.. I think it should be 30days and if you find a job in those 30 days it can be extended.

Luckily my life is not so desperately pathetic that I need to wait for a raffle to decide whether I am going to get a bedbug laden bunk for the evening because if this were my only option I would stand in the broken elevator of the Mission until it plummeted 6 floors and killed me. I only stayed for a brief moment so will just give a handful of quick observations.

It is supposed to be an emergency shelter but people live there for literal years. There is no help with housing or job training and people who are trying to better themselves by getting jobs or going to school lose thier beds if they are not in them by 3:45 pm. There is racism, favoratism, laziness (Shayquan is easily the laziest and most useless "Ambassador" there) malaise, food poisoning, unrelenting filth and the knowledge that you are nothing more than a bed to fill. You are given a list of rules when you arrive but they are not followed and there are people who do not have to follow them or are not punished according to them. The only positive reviews here are written by people who like to pat themselves on the back because they donated, no one who has been subjected to the hypocrisy, toxicity, filth, injustice, assault from male clients, complete lack of care and never ending exhaustion of this place has ever left a positive review.

That's because it is not a positive place. I am lucky enough to be in a position where I can and will rise above this and I have nothing but compassion and pity for those who are trapped in that unhelful, unjust, and downright ugly situation. Jose, Chuck, Cheryl and Lea are good people who deserve better than this place. Aside from them, well...I'd go into a city shelter before subjecting myself to this madhouse ever again.

This place of charity is a lifesaver for so many homeless and low income people!!!Bravo!!!!

Christian owned. Truly trying to help people in need. Very clean, good food, clean bathrooms and showers.

Not enough beds for the women, and man. The preach the word of the Lord. Provide food and a bed. Staff they don't judge you. They do the best.

Definitely GREAT place.... They feed you hot meal at dinner. Chapel services with positive messages. Staff genuine and courteous. Treated with dignity n respect. Social Services to help with with program n other services. I was welcomed with open arms n have been treated fairly. To tell truth I feel blessed Not perfect but in reality who is? No pressure to attend chapel services. Structured with rules.

Had a bunch of donations to make that weren't quite "resale" worthy, but things I thought would definitely be useful to someone who just needed a coat or pair of pants, etc. We were in the middle of moving, and as moves often go, we finished packing the donations around 11 o clock at night. This place claimed to be open 24/7 and sure enough, we wandered over just before midnight and the guy at the front desk let us in, took our bags, and gave us a receipt. Couldn't have been easier.

A godchild place. People helping people resources there can change lives.

Lots of services, organized,friendly staff, I would return there if in need.

It's good for one point but it's bad when you get the bed for seven days when the seven days is up you have to go by the lottery to get the bed again the back part if your number doesn't show up you don't get a bed and you'll be out in the street the food is great the pastor is awesome the rules of a little bad and the curfew is worse you going to be in before 6:15

They do the best they can for an emergency shelter. Thankful for all my brothers& sisters there. God bless them.

The only homeless shelter that I will ever recommend!

Help people that are on hard times if your homeless and have nowhere to go they we'll take you in cloth you and much more

Very good place the whole building has a fire alarm system

Donated a few supplies to this organization and they were very grateful for them. A little out of the way from where I live but I will donate to them again.

Charles at the front desk is my hero. He always makes me feel appreciated whenever I m dropping off food from Rescuing Leftover Cuisine.

I am rating this based on the brief visits I have made when delivering rescued food to this location during a volunteer event.

The front desk staff that I have encountered are very polite and appreciative of our volunteer efforts in bringing the food to the NYC Rescue Mission, especially a gentleman that I believe his name is Charlie. This individual is an example of how the organization can help improve the homeless population's lives, himself having been helped by the organization. They know all the clients that visit the location.

Some of the volunteers forget that they too are homeless and most unemployed like those they serve. They display arrogant attitudes that most times incite arguments instead of defusing them. Some have this jail mentality and quickly resort to inviting you to a fight. Also I have witness inappropriate display of sexual behavior as well as attire from some of the staff/volunteers. For example attire that is extremely tight or revealing. However this "Christian" based facility segregates Men from Woman in addition to segregating their placement of personal belongings to avoid Male / Female interaction.

This place is really nice, unfortunately when I came in I was delusional and thought the staff was being mean for not showing me how to wash my clothes. At the time I had gotten my bed and everything in order. I had a blood cloth developing in my left foot, the pain was heightening and I ended up throwing a coffee at the front door and then had like five people come at me wanting to fight me who they them self's must of been mentally ill. Well they swung at me, hit me, I swung back and then got sent to an office where they kicked me out for fighting. They said I couldn't come back for six months. That's when I showed up to the Bowery Mission, a couple of blocks away. Either way this place is very helpful. If you're not in my condition you'll be well off.

Provides good food and good services to those who might need it. Very clean and organized. Staffed by good volunteers, (I'm one).

It's wonderful to volunteer and give back to the community a "hand up" for those wo are struggling.

Volunteering on sound board at tonight's chapel service.

This is a lovely place they give you a bed for 7 days then they can extend it 21 one more days. You must take a shower before going to bed and they also make sure your stuff is safe. By placing it in a locked area. The food is great. The only downside is you must leave each day and return at 3 pm for woman and 4 pm for men.

Being homeless after my daughter repeatedly pounded my face in after coming in drunk, followed by knee going out led me to the rescue mission from Safe Horizon. They are really walking in the light of God. They will be kind and helpful.to you. If you want to make a change in your life, a bed and be off the streets I highly recommend this place.

Convincing a philanthropist to shy away from his promised $300 for each of the 250 homeless individuals while gaining $90k in funding instead is a bloody joke. You guys should be ashamed of yourself. It is a a prejudice to generalize the entire homeless population as drug addicts. You may have fooled a Chinese tycoon, but you can't fool me. NYC Rescue Mission capitalized on these 250 individuals to generate $90k for their own agenda. Let's do the math, if Chen Guanbiao did give $300 to 250 people, he would be paying $75,000. $15,000 less than the rescue fund of $90k. However...NYC Rescue Mission also needs to pay for employee salaries and other utility expenses. $15k is definitely not enough to cover that, which means Chen's $90k isn't going to benefit the homeless that much at all. However, I do applaud NYCRM on their amazing persuasion to convince a millionaire to entrust his money to them instead of the homeless. And that is why that one star is there. Those of you who continue to work for Mr. Mayes after this incident, or believe in the generalization of homeless people as drug addicts should be ashamed of yourself. Shame on you!

Wonderful staff and a beautiful mission. If you're looking for a place to make charitable donations, I'd encourage you to check out this organization.

Am here it a very nice place. You get a bed for 7 days then a extension for 21 more days. You meet with a social worker. To work on permanent housing and other goals. They also have 2 residential programs that can help you short or long term.