Harlem organizers called an emergency meeting at NYCHA’s St. Nicholas Houses to discuss a proposed migrant shelter in the community.
ABANDONED: Harlem building will not be used to house migrants, says Mayor Adams after community pushback
Harlem organizers, enraged over the city scouting an abandoned luxury building in their neighborhood as a possible asylum seeker shelter, called an emergency meeting at NYCHA’s St. Nicholas Houses community center in Harlem last week. Mayor Eric Adams made an impromptu visit to plead his case to Black residents—twice.
The meeting was convened by Silent Voices United and the St. Nicholas Houses Resident Association after community members discovered movement and bunk beds inside the building that had been dormant since 2010. According to the city, the original developer went bankrupt and the new owner was going to lease the building to a nonprofit with the assumption that it would be used as a shelter.
—all of which received immense pushback from predominantly Black and white communities all around the city since April 2022. Though Adams shifted some blame on the current handling of the migrant crisis to, he largely attributed it to state and national immigration problems. Adams tried his best to dispel some of the misplaced hate and vitriol against immigrants themselves at the meeting.
Assemblymember Inez Dickens, who has announced her retirement this year, attended the meeting. She arrived after Adams had left. Dickens resolutely stood with Adams, and reiterated that the migrant crisis wasn’t his doing but a culmination of policies from a former city administration and ongoing federal immigration issues. She also was upset about longtime residents being priced out of housing, oversaturation of shelters and OPCs in the neighborhood, and about the community’s voice.
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