Mayor Eric Adams tried to show progress on the migrant crisis last week, with a deputy saying just one-fifth of adults reapply for shelter once a new time limit on their stays is up.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams must close the Roosevelt Hotel migrant"welcome center" if he hopes to attack the crisis, columnist Nicole Gelinas explains.Eric Adams' disastrous Latin tour will only encourage more migrants to comethe migrant crisis last week
But that’s based on a small sample: Fewer than 4,900 adult migrants have had their stay expire, out of 64,100 people in shelter.Plus, the city is deterring repeat customers in an underhanded way: forcing re-applicants to go from one administrative office to another or sleep on chairs in lobbies, with the city hoping they disappear. hasn’t made such a court motion, instead dancing around the edges, asking for suspensions and modifications.
It sent a signal to the world that New York had the resources to give every newcomer a Manhattan hotel room. The Pakistani government, which owns the hotel, leased it to the city for three years for $220 million. A Pakistani journalist sums it up best. “The difference is huge. Grand Central looks very beautiful, very impressive, very clean,” he continues. Other nearby buildings “are equally clean. Then you go” to the Roosevelt. “I don’t know how long this can continue.”
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