“I think this is a national and statewide issue that has been unjustly dropped into the lap of New York City residents,” the mayor said.
Mayor Adams fired back Thursday after Gov. Hochul’s legal team wrote a scathing critique of the handling of the migrant crisis that is taking a financial bite out of the Big Apple.
Hizzoner complained it’s not right that New York City is responsible for housing “over 99 percent” of the shelters, arguing the crisis is statewide. He called on Hochul to issue an executive order to stop localities outside of NYC from banning migrant shelters. “I think this is a national and statewide issue that has been unjustly dropped into the lap of New York City residents. We only make up .05 of the landmass in New York State!” a frustrated Adams said during a Manhattan-based press conference Thursday.“We are going into individual court cases where everyone is finding creative ways not to be the state and country that we are,” Adams told reporters.
“When the damn bursts, the water flow, and that water, in this case, were human beings that had to sleep outside of the Roosevelt Hotel.”requiring the Big Apple to provide a temporary bed to individuals who ask, arguing the migrant crisis has placed an emergency strain on the system. A group of migrants arriving at the “Tent City” shelter at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens on August 16, 2023.Roughly 101,200 migrants have arrived in the city since the spring of 2022, and over 58,500 are living in 201 taxpayer-funded shelters, according to the latest tally provided by City Hall.
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