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Three homeless men who inter-

vened in a lawsuit to stop their

forced relocation from the Upper

West Side’s Lucerne hotel to a ho-

tel in the Financial District have

appealed a ruling OKing the move.

Ramone Buford, Larry Thomas

and Travis Trammell were among

more than 200 homeless men

housed at the Lucerne as an emer-

gency shelter during the pan-

demic, sparking controversy. Now

they’re slated to be moved by the

city to a FiDi Radisson hotel.

The men — two of whom have

since been placed in permanent

housing — intervened in the law-

suit brought by a group of busi-

nesses and residents of FiDi,

called Downtown New Yorkers,

Inc., seeking to block the reloca-

tion.

The move was temporarily put

on hold pending the outcome of

the case, until Manhattan Su-

preme Court Justice Debra James

tossed out the suit last week,

clearing the way for the reloca-

tion.

The appeal follows on the heels

of Downtown New Yorkers filing

their own challenge to the ruling

Friday.

“This move is the right thing to

do for these residents and we are

confident the appellate court will

allow it to proceed,” a spokesper-

son for the city Law Department

said. Priscilla DeGregory

Homeless appeal UWS move

Robert Miller

A New Jersey fire chief

sexually harassed a teen

volunteer, commenting on

her body — including her

pubic hair — and continu-

ing to hit on her even after

she left for college, court

papers allege.

Franklin Fire Department

Chief Raymond Read alleg-

edly began hounding Priya

Gupta in 2018, when she

was just 16, and volunteer-

ing as an emergency servi-

ces technician, a Warren

County Superior Court law-

suit from last month al-

leges.

On Gupta’s first day, Read,

45, allegedly announced in

front of the department that

it was “my hot EMT day,” the

court papers allege.

His alleged crude remarks

included asking Gupta if her

public hair is “like a landing

strip down there? Do you

leave a little flavor saver?”

the court papers allege. He

also told Gupta he could

“teach you some skills with

your tongue,” and said her

“skinny” arms were “only

good for putting behind your

back when you’re hitting it

from behind,” the court doc-

uments allege.

Gupta said her complaints

to the department against

Read and Lt. Vincent Fortu-

nato, with whom she alleg-

edly had a brief “exploitive”

fling at age 17, weren’t taken

seriously.

Read and Fortunato did

not immediately return re-

quests for comment. Nor did

lawyers for them, the town

and fire department.

Priscilla DeGregory

NJ fire chief was lewd to me: teen volunteer

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By Selim AlgAr

Education Reporter

Mayor de Blasio has tantalized

city parents with visions of a return

to full-time schooling — but admit-

ted Wednesday that he doesn’t

know when kids will be back in class

five days a week.

Hizzoner — who on Sunday

touted plans for a full-time return

for students who are now in blended

learning — demurred when pushed

by reporters to approximate the

number of schools that would make

a complete classroom comeback.

“I know it’s New York City and we

don’t believe in patience here,” he

said. “But I’m going to ask people to

be a little patient. There’s a pan-

demic going on. We’re dealing with

a lot of variables here.”

De Blasio said individual school

schedules won’t be clarified until

the Department of Education gets a

good sense of how many kids actu-

ally show up for in-person learning

and remain eligible for it.

“We think we’re going to have

most of that information in the

course of next week,” he said.

Some 335,000 city kids are cur-

rently signed up for building in-

struction, which includes blended

learning, according to the DOE.

Since the reopening will happen

in phases, only 190,000 of them are

eligible to return to school next

week.

But de Blasio emphasized

Wednesday that students who are

signed up for in-person learning but

fail to regularly attend will be

switched to remote learning.

In addition, he reiterated that stu-

dents who do not have completed

consent forms for COVID-19 testing

will be disqualified from classroom

instruction.

“We’re talking about hundreds of

schools that will be reopening on

Monday,” he said. “A substantial

number are ready to go to five days

right away. But others need to get

more information to do that.”

The requirement of testing-con-

sent forms has likely set the stage for

confrontations at schools next week.

Several parents told The Post this

week that they won’t provide the

forms but will still attempt to drop

their kids off at their schools begin-

ning Monday.

Asked directly if children lacking

the paperwork would be turned

away, a DOE spokesman referred to

de Blasio’s Sunday statement.

“We will have a consent form re-

quired for attendance,” the mayor

said then. “I want to emphasize this.

Students will not be able to attend

school unless they have a consent

form on record, period. This is

something for everyone’s health and

safety.”

As of Nov. 17, the DOE had col-

lected 117,000 consent forms out of

335,000 students.

Some families have objected to

testing their children without them

present or to testing not done by pri-

vate doctors.

Blas: Full-time return

to schools still hazy

I’m going to

ask people to

be a little

patient...

We’re dealing

with a lot of

variables.

— Mayor de Blasio

with a lot of

I’m going to

ask people to

be a little

patient...

We’re dealing

with a lot of

variables.

—

ask people to