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Suburbs Are Furious at Adams's Plan To Send Migrants To Their Hotels
Suburbs Are Furious at Adams's Plan To Send Migrants To Their Hotels
Asylum seekers continue to arrive by bus into New York, including what appeared to
be a family last week at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown. Juan Arredondo
for The New York Times
By Stefanos Chen
It took less than a day for the plan to hit a wall. Officials in one of
the two counties strongly rejected the city’s relocation efforts and
declared a state of emergency to thwart the attempt.
The city intended to house about 300 men in two hotels in Rockland
and Orange Counties, north of New York City, providing up to four
months of shelter, food and medical services.
Although Mr. Adams said that he had consulted with the state and
with local officials, at least two said they were caught off guard and
vowed to fight the plan.
“It felt like they were trying to do a Friday night drop,” said Teresa
Kenny, the town supervisor of Orangetown, who said she learned Editors’ Picks
about the plan only hours before Mayor Adams announced the
move. “I feel like the mayor called me to check a box so he couldn’t An N.F.L. Star Finds
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be criticized for not talking to us.” Making Music
Mayor Eric Adams has begun a so-called decompression strategy to try to alleviate
the influx of migrants into New York City. Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
Rockland is the first county in the state, outside of New York City,
to issue such an order to address the migrant crisis, said Stephen
Acquario, the executive director of the New York State Association
of Counties.
New York City has used a variety of places to house the asylum seekers, including
hotels like the Watson Hotel in Manhattan. Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
The shift in New York City’s strategy comes after Mr. Adams said
in a statement on Friday that a “vacuum of leadership” at the
federal level has necessitated a new “decompression strategy,” to
share the burden of housing a growing number of asylum seekers
across municipalities. Over 60,800 migrants have arrived in New
York City since last spring, according to city officials.
Calls to the hotel in Rockland County, the 170-room Armoni Inn and
Suites in Orangetown, were not answered. Piles of mattresses were
stacked outside of the hotel on Friday afternoon, Ms. Kenny, the
Orangetown town supervisor said, even though a wedding
reception was being held at the building over the weekend.
“This came out of left field,” said Steve Neuhaus, the Orange
County executive, adding that Mayor Adams told him the
Newburgh hotel would receive about 60 migrants.
“We are maxed out with the homeless in the county,” he said,
adding that he is also considering issuing a state of emergency to
block the move.
Stefanos Chen is a real estate reporter, based in New York. He joined The Times in 2017
after five years with The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter and multimedia
producer. @ stefanoschen
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