A cot out of the wind.

November through March on Grant Street. Pat still makes the first pot of coffee. D.S. on the West Side said they had a cot and coffee and nobody asked why he was wet.

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A cot

One bunk, wool blanket, a hook for a coat. Pat assigns beds after 19:00. Forty dollars covers a cot, coffee, and the gas for the boiler.

Family room

Two cots behind a curtain. Irene keeps the extra lamp and writes first names only.

Shelter common room at night with a coffee urn and chairs

The house on Grant

312 Grant St, Buffalo, NY 14213. Intake 18:00–22:00. Doors 19:00–7:00, November through March. Sixteen winters. 4,100 nights last year.

Pat Nowak, night lead. Irene Walsh, intake. EIN 16-5550379.