New York City Mayor Eric Adams spent the coldest night of the year at a migrant shelter in an attempt to prove the facilities are good enough for those who have refused to move there.
Adams, 62, has been trying to convince the migrants to shift to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal after they’ve been locked out of various Big Apple hotels, with many activists saying the move is not an adequate fix.
The facility is meant for about 1,000 single male migrants, who have been ferried across the city from a tent shelter on Randall’s Island to various hotels, will head to the terminal starting Monday morning from the Watson Hotel in Midtown.
It came as the temperature hit a low of 12 degrees in Brooklyn Saturday night, with temperatures having dipped into the single digits earlier that day.
The mayor tweeted: ‘Spent the coldest night of the year at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal with ‘Homeless Hero’ and advocate Shams DaBaron & @AMEddieGibbs. Our brothers are being kept warm and the team working here is giving new meaning to the words ‘love thy neighbor.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams spent the coldest night of the year in New York City at a migrant shelter in an attempt to prove the facilities are good enough for those who have refused to move there
The Democrat – who has bragged of himself as the ‘Biden of Brooklyn’ despite criticizing the president’s inaction on the immigration crisis – posted photos of himself sleeping, dining and playing video games with migrants.
With rumors that he’s plotting out an eventual presidential run, Adams wanted to show how welcoming the facility could be.
‘What we saw is what we have seen since the beginning of this crisis, individuals who are grateful to the greatest city in the world for providing them the opportunity to work toward the American Dream,’ he said.
‘I’d like to be clear that the facilities at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal are providing the same services to asylum seekers as every other humanitarian relief center in the city, and the team at the terminal is giving new meaning to the words ‘love thy neighbor.’
A week ago, DailyMail.com cameras saw only a small number of the migrants choose to get on the buses, with three departing the hotel carrying a total of about 15-20 people.
That hotel is planning to then replace the single male migrants with families that are currently lodging at The Row in Hell’s Kitchen.
This will not be a permanent home, as the city has promised to close the facility in time for cruise season to begin in spring.
In New York City, a code blue alert issued by the mayor earlier that day meant nobody would be denied shelter at the city’s facilities.
The Democrat – who has bragged of himself as the ‘Biden of Brooklyn’ despite criticizing the president’s inaction on the immigration crisis – posted photos of himself sleeping, dining and playing video games with migrants
Adams, 62, has been trying to convince the migrants to shift to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal after they’ve been locked out of various Big Apple hotels, with many activists saying the move is not an adequate fix
The visit came as the temperature hit a low of 12 degrees in Brooklyn Saturday night, with temperatures having dipped into the single digits earlier that day. A fountain in Manhattan’s Bryant Park (pictured) froze over
With rumors that he’s plotting out an eventual presidential run, Adams wanted to show how welcoming the facility could be
A view from the surroundings of Watson Hotel in Manhattan. New York City started moving asylum seekers out of their shelter, the Watson Hotel in Manhattan while many asylum seekers are refusing transfers from the hotel to the ferry terminal at Red Hook
Temperatures in the Big Apple were as low as five degrees on Saturday morning after a mild winter.
Adams has been bullish on asking for federal help, which included a rally outside City Hall Sunday.
Washington has approved $800million in spending to aid the crisis but it will go to various cities across the country.
Even if it were all going to New York, the city will still spend more money on its own to help the migrants, according to ABC7.
However, Adams bragged Sunday that the migrants will live in better conditions than in other cities.
‘People are sleeping on the streets in El Paso,’ Adams said at the rally. ‘There sleeping in airports. I spoke to my colleague in Chicago, people are sleeping in the basement of libraries. No family is sleeping on our streets.’
Mayor Eric Adams announced that the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will open Monday and house about 1,000 single adult male migrants
Adams has been bullish on asking for federal help, which included a rally outside City Hall Sunday
The migrants, who have been ferried across the city from a tent shelter on Randall’s Island to various hotels, will head to the terminal starting Monday morning from the Watson Hotel in Midtown
DailyMail.com cameras captured some migrants being pressured to get on buses to Red Hook Sunday night
These immigrants were staying at The Watson Hotel. Now they are not being allowed back
A NYPD officer looks on as migrant boards bus to RedHook. Immigrants are being pressured to board buses to Red Hook, where its said the living conditions are bad
He added that there are no plans for the city to stop taking in migrants but that they will need extra preparation if the Supreme Court lets Title 42 – the pandemic rule making it harder to seek asylum in the US – expire.
Activists are not happy with the constant moves, saying that it’s not an adequate fix.
‘Now they’re going to be moved to a building that was not designed for living, that the city is gonna have to prepare for people to sleep in, and only for a short period of time,’ Josh Goldfein of the Legal Aid Society said.
‘We’re gonna invest a lot of resources to get this building ready only to dismantle it again, I guess when cruise ships start coming in again.’
The location is also isolated and far away from accessing medical care and opportunities to work.
An employee of the mayor’s office speaks with a police officer as they try to get the migrants to bus to Red Hook
Immigrants and activists have said the conditions at the terminal are inhumane
A police officer speaks to some of the migrants who have boarded the bus for the terminal
Only a small number of the migrants chose to get on the buses, with three departing the hotel carrying a total of about 15-20 people
Activists are not happy with the constant moves, saying that it’s not an adequate fix
The location is isolated and far away from accessing medical care and opportunities to work
A New York City bus departs for the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal Sunday night
Mayor Eric Adams announced that the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal would open Monday and house about 1,000 single adult male migrants (picture provided by one of the immigrants)
This will not be a permanent home, as the city has promised to close the facility in time for cruise season to begin in spring (picture provided by one of the immigrants)
‘The city has tens of thousands of New Yorkers in shelter currently who were there before the migrants started coming who could move out if they had some assistance,’ Goldfein added.
Despite his proclamations, Adams previously made headlines for saying ‘there is no more room’ after previously stating the city would always welcome migrants.
Buses of migrants have been arriving in NYC since fall when Republican governors, primarily Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, began sending asylum seekers from the border to largely Democratic-leaning cities.
