local residents are angry after hearing Friday’s news that Gov. Kathy Hochul approved Mayor Eric Adams’s clearance for Harlem’s Lincoln Correctional Facility, which closed in 2019, to be repurposed as a temporary shelter for displaced migrant workers.
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“We’re grateful to the state for providing this site and partnering with the city to open this space as a temporary site for asylum seekers as New York City continues to face this humanitarian crisis,” said a spokesman for Adams, noting that “hundreds of asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York City every day.”
“As we ride through here, we see so many homeless people. Why isn’t the city taking care of the homeless people who are already here?” Harlem resident Robert Avery asked.
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