Sobering video shows migrants sleeping on cardboard outside iconic NYC hotel as shelter hits capacity; Mayor Adams orders more than 100 migrants to leave city shelters under new rule; NYC’s ‘ill-conceived’ plan to limit migrants to 60-day shelter off to disorganized start

By admin On Aug 7, 2023

Sobering video shows migrants sleeping on cardboard outside iconic NYC hotel as shelter hits capacity:

Sobering video shows dozens of migrants sleeping on cardboard outside the iconic Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Monday morning — as the makeshift processing center for asylum seekers hit capacity this weekend

The slumbering newly arrived migrants could be seen filling the sidewalks surrounding the historic hotel at 45th Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, stretching from the hotel door up East 47th Street.

The group slept shoulder-to-shoulder across three full blocks while waiting to be processed at the site, which also houses migrant families, as NYPD officers monitored the situation.

Heartbreaking images showed crowd-control ropes separating the migrants from passersby, as those waiting for access to proper shelter huddled under blankets with their belongings alongside them.

“We’re all sleeping on the street,” said Abderahim Mahamat Saleh, a 36-year-old married dad of three from the Central African Republic, to The Post — adding he hasn’t been able to find a bed anywhere since he arrived in the Big Apple eight days ago.

He said he has been waiting outside the Roosevelt now for two days after staff gave him a “general referral form” and placed him in the queue along with dozens of other migrants.

“We don’t have blankets or pillows. They brought in vans for some people to sleep in, but there’s not enough space in the vans,” explained the migrant, who said he left behind his family to escape his country’s militia after they broke two of his ribs and collarbone. —>READ MORE HERE

Mayor Adams orders more than 100 migrants to leave city shelters under new rule:

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration handed down 100 eviction-like notices to migrants who have stayed in the city’s taxpayer-funded shelters the longest.

The first of the notices issued under City Hall’s new 60-day shelter stay limit — which officials say were needed to help free up space for migrant families with children — were handed out this week to single adults.

“The people initially that we’re giving the notices to are the people that have been in our system for the longest,” said Dr. Ted Long, the senior vice president at New York City Health and Hospitals.

“We’re delivering the notices on a rolling basis,” he added.

Although City Hall did not say how long these individuals have been staying in the various migrant shelters — or disclose their locations — Adams has complained about the shelters being full to their “breaking point” since last fall.