New York City will not renew its lease with the last major hotel operating as a migrant shelter.
According to The New York Times, Mayor Eric Adams said the Row NYC in Times Square will cease housing migrants in April when the city’s lease with the establishment expires. Adams cited the plummeting level of migrants arriving in the city since the Trump administration successfully shut off the influx of illegals into the country.
The migrants now housed at the Row will be moved to other facilities within the city’s homeless shelter system. The Row, once a prominent four-star hotel in the heart of Theater District, received a $40 million contract from the city in October 2022 to house migrants in its 1,300 rooms, with the city paying $190 a night per room.
The city still provides shelter for more than 35,400 migrants, mostly families with children, with most living in smaller hotels and shelters run by the municipal Department of Homeless Services. Adams said that the end of the contract with the Row’s was “yet another major milestone in our administration’s recovery from this international humanitarian crisis.”
Photo courtesy Row NYC
The city didn’t provide squat-the real working hard Americans paid for all this-where do you think the money comes from,????
Exactly!
The city could have built barracks in Rikers Island to house those immigrants instead of housing them in 4 star hotel for less money,
Most hard working Americans don’t get to spend their well earned vacations at a 4 stars hotels.