Posted on June 28, 2016 by John Surico in Vice Vice, By John Surico The Verve Hotel doesn’t stick out. The tan, six-floor building in the Dutch Kills neighborhood of Queens is typical of the quiet industrial area, surrounded as it is by bodyshops, single-family homes, a rumbling elevated train, and hotels of a modernist sensibility, all glass exteriors and clean-cut balconies. During the school year, a handball court attracts teenagers as they head home from class just down the road. The only way you might realize the Verve is a converted home for New York City’s homeless population is if you spotted the metal detector in the lobby.
