Gimme Shelter: a life of public service in New York CityNow and then, there really is good government. Bonnie Stone spent 40 years in New York City and social services oriented not for profits. She doggedly and ingeniously tackled some of New York's most urgent issues, particularly chronic homelessness. Undaunted, Stone negotiated choppy waters, working with the expert, the difficult, the skeptical, the next to impossible, the determined, and the inspired. Gimme Shelter has a cast of characters as colorful