“I don’t know how, from one minute to the next, all of a sudden they found beds.”
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.City officials cleared a crowd of more than 100 migrants from a Midtown sidewalk on Thursday morning — days after Mayor Eric Adams said there was no space to house the new arrivals.
“I don’t know how, from one minute to the next, all of a sudden they found beds,” Malu said, adding that he was outside the hotel until 3:30 a.m. on Thursday. “We are doing our best to offer placements whenever we have space available, have two additional humanitarian relief centers scheduled to come online in the coming weeks to serve this population, and are eternally grateful for our partnership with faith-based organizations who are offering some asylum-seekers a place to rest their heads whenever possible,” Levy said.
The city has opened more than 200 emergency shelters to accommodate the influx of new arrivals — with increasinglyAdams also said this week that migrants sleeping outside would become more common and widespread, as more newcomers arrived. City officials have repeatedly asked for federal intervention to disperse newly arrived migrants elsewhere and alleviate the strain on city services.with members of the city’s congressional delegation to meet with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on the rising number of migrants arriving in New York.distributing flyers at the U.S.-Mexico border
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