Several men who had been bused to the pop up shelter described arriving to frigid temperatures, with no apparent heat or hot water, uncomfortable cots, no privacy and no personal space to store belongings.
“I slept here in the street because they kicked us out,” said Darwin Castillo, a 26-year-old migrant from Venezuela. “They don’t care that we’re working, they don’t care about us.”“We need somewhere we can rest and have privacy,” he said in Spanish.
Fabien Levy, a spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams, contested some of the migrants’ claims and insisted the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal was heated and there were storage lockers available for people to keep their valuables.and Twitter Sunday night captured the chaotic scene outside the Watson Hotel. “The facilities at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will provide the same services as every other humanitarian relief center in the city, and the scheduled relocations to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal this weekend took place as planned,” Levy said. “We remain in serious need of support from both our state and federal governments.”
Desiree Joy Frías, an attorney and activist with South Bronx Mutual Aid, denied they’d started a protest. She and other activists arrived on scene Sunday to support migrants after hearing about people being denied reentry to the Watson Hotel through a WhatsApp group made up of several hundred recent arrivals to the city.
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