Manhattan elected officials are asking Mayor Eric Adams for detailed plans on the city’s opening of Midtown’s iconic Roosevelt Hotel.
The hotel is preparing to reopen as an “asylum seeker arrival center” to handle the crush of new immigrants this Friday.The city has received upwards of 65,000 individuals from the southern border since last spring, with over 41,000 currently living in taxpayer-funded shelters.
It’s pushed the city to open upwards of 150 “emergency” shelters — mainly hotels across the five boroughs — to house asylum seekers. Struggling to find space, the Adams administration began bussing migrants to several upstate counties earlier this month and even suspendedgoverning how the city cares for its homeless population.
City Councilman Keith Powers and Rep. Jerrold Nadler sent a letter to City Hall on Wednesday, asking how exactly the 1,000-room hotel will operate as the Big Apple’s city’s “welcome center” for migrants going forward.The letter stated, “As the elected officials representing the Roosevelt Hotel and nearby areas, we want to ensure the opening of the shelter is done in a safe and secure manner for both the families housed there and the neighboring community.
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