As Crisis Grows, All of New York’s Migrant Plans Are Met With Outrage* Posted on May 18, 2023 by Liam Stack, Jeffery C. Mays in The New York Times Since tens of thousands of migrants began arriving in New York City last year, the administration of Mayor Eric Adams has searched for one place after another to house them: hotels, parking lots, a cruise ship terminal and a pair of giant tents on Randall’s ..Read More
NYC converts hotels to shelters as pressure mounts to accommodate asylum seekers Posted on May 15, 2023 by DEEPTI HAJELA & BOBBY CAINA CALVAN in AP News NEW YORK (AP) — The historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan shuttered three years ago, but it will soon be bustling again — reopening to accommodate an anticipated influx of asylum seekers just as other New York City hotels are being converted to eme ..Read More
‘The right decision’: Adams defends suspending ‘right-to-shelter’ rules Posted on May 11, 2023 by Maya Rajamani in NY1 Mayor Eric Adams defended his decision to suspend parts of the city’s “right-to-shelter” law on Thursday, calling it a difficult choice forced by a “real-life humanitarian crisis.” Read more… ..Read More
NYC Eases Right-to-Shelter Rules in Bid to House Migrants Amid Suburban Backlash Posted on May 11, 2023 by Melissa Russo, Sarah Wallace and NBC New York Staff in NBC New York In anticipation of a new influx of migrants coming to the tri-state as COVID-era immigration restrictions known as “Title 42” are set to expire, New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order loosening the city’s legal restriction ..Read More
In Wake of Subway Killing, City Officials Grilled On Touchpoints With Unhoused New Yorkers Posted on May 10, 2023 by Emma Whitford in City Limits At a Council hearing, officials said the city has recorded 318,000 “engagements” since February 2022 between street homeless residents and police or outreach workers, including instances where the same individual was contacted multiple times. Of those, 4,6 ..Read More
How to respond to an erratic person on the subway Posted on May 10, 2023 by CAROLINE SPIVACK in Crains New York On May 1, Jordan Neely desperately ranted on an F train traveling through Manhattan. A fellow passenger placed the 30-year-old homeless man in a chokehold, killing him and setting off protests throughout the city. Read more… ..Read More
Migrant kids mixed with single men in NYC shelter sparks safety concerns Posted on May 8, 2023 by Haley Brown, Bernadette Hogan, and Emily Crane in New York Post In yet another disturbing twist to the migrant crisis in New York City, families with young children are sleeping alongside adult single men at a makeshift shelter inside the NYPD’s old Manhattan police academy gym — a move asylum seekers and officials hav ..Read More
Jordan Neely Was Already Dead Posted on May 6, 2023 by Errol Louis in New York Mag For some New Yorkers, Jordan Neely was dead even before Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny allegedly choked the life out of him on the floor of a subway train. Read more… ..Read More
Jordan Neely’s death reflects the inhumane consequences of being homeless, experts say Posted on May 5, 2023 by Char Adams and Claretta Bellamy in NBC News The death of Jordan Neely reveals a wide societal belief that “any homeless person is likely to be violent or likely to attack them,” one expert said. Read more… ..Read More
