It's a problem city officials apparently didn't see coming -- asylum seekers who got used to the privacy of living in a Midtown hotel room don't want to move to a congregate shelter in Brooklyn. MKramerTV reports.
It's a problem city officials apparently didn't see coming -- asylum seekers who got used to the privacy of living in a hotel room don't want to move to a congregate shelter where everyone sleeps packed like sardines in a room with 1,000 cots.Mayor Eric Adams says proposed migrant shelter at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will be heated space
And here's why: instead of private rooms at the Watson, they are going to sleep in a massive room with hundreds of beds. "The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal is ugly. It's disgusting," one asylum seeker said through a translator."The beds are head to toe. They're very cramped together, so there's a fear that COVID might spread rapidly in such a crowded room. So migrants feel safer in the streets," Mutual Aid's Yajaira Saavedra said.
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