By Gus Saltonstall

A former illegal hotel on the Upper West Side reopened Monday as permanent supportive housing for 68 formerly homeless tenants.

The building at 235 West 107th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam, is a single-room-occupancy property that was most recently operated as an illegal transient hotel called The Morningside Inn. The hotel was closed in 2021.

The address was then purchased by Rockabill Development and the nonprofit Goddard Riverside, which subsequently completed a $38 million renovation of the UWS building.

The building will now be known as the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Residence, in honor of Stephan Russo, who worked at Goddard Riverside from 1976 to 2017, including two decades as its executive director.

“Goddard Riverside believes every person dese

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