City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams on Thursday rebuked Mayor Eric Adams' decision to clear out several dozen migrants who were camped outside Midtown Manhattan's Watson Hotel, protesting the city's push to relocate them to a mega-shelter in Brooklyn.
Manhattan’s Watson Hotel, protesting the city’s push to relocate them from the hotel to a mega-shelter in Brooklyn since Sunday.took place just before 8 p.m. Wednesday night.
“It’s disappointing that the administration chose to handle the situation outside of the Watson Hotel in the manner it did, especially on a day when the governor proposed resources to support our city in helping asylum seekers and the neighborhood’s welcoming them,” the speaker said. Fabien Levy, in a statement to amNewYork Metro, said there was “no standoff.” Instead, he said, the majority of the asylum seekers camped outside the hotel went on buses provided by the city to the Brooklyn shelter, none were arrested and only the items they had with them on the street were tossed out by sanitation workers — not the items that were in their hotel rooms.
“We are grateful that almost all single men who were staying at the Watson Hotel chose to heed our calls and come inside from the frigid temperatures last night,” Levy said. “The men who were staying at the Watson all either chose to transfer to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal — a humanitarian relief center that multiple elected officials yesterday called a ‘warm’ location — or decided to leave our care by connecting with friends, family, or other networks.
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