Migrant crisis NYC: Shocking photos show dozens of sleeping people lining ... trends now
Shocking pictures have laid bare New York City's migrant crisis after dozens of people were seen sleeping outside the iconic Roosevelt Hotel which has reached capacity since being turned into a designated center for asylum seekers.
Migrants were seen lining the street at 46th and Vanderbilt as commuters made their way to work on Monday morning.
The Roosevelt Hotel, which was shuttered three years ago, is one of several hotels that were transformed into emergency centers as the city struggles with an influx of migrants.
New York is bound by a decades-old consent decree in a class-action lawsuit to provide shelter for those without homes.
Many of the hotels are within walking distance from Times Square, the World Trade Center memorial site and the Empire State Building.
Shocking pictures have laid bare New York City's migrant crisis as dozens of people were seen sleeping outside the iconic Roosevelt hotel in midtown Manhattan
Migrants were seen lining the street at 46th and Vanderbilt as commuters made their way to work on Monday morning
But rooms at the Roosevelt, where only migrant families have been staying, have already filled up, as the city says more than 93,000 asylum seekers came through the intake system last spring.
Some of the thousands of migrants who have arrived in NYC have been been bused in from Florida and Texas, as the states' conservative governments argue progressive cities should share the burden.
Texas' governor Greg Abbott has sent around 9,700 asylum seekers to New York City, according to Politico. Florida's governor Ron DeSantis has flown about 85 migrants to Massachusetts and California.
Mayor Eric Adams' office said in a statement: 'Children and families continue to be prioritized and are found a bed every night.
'While we at least offered all adults a temporary place to wait off the sidewalks last night, some may have chosen to sleep outside and, in all honesty, New Yorkers may continue to see that more and more as hundreds of asylum seekers continue to arrive each day.'
The migrants sitting outside the hotel will likely be taken to a different shelter once they're processed.
On Sunday morning, some migrants were seen leaving the hotel and getting on a city bus headed to a shelter in the Bronx, Eyewitness News reported.
Many told local media they were from Venezuela and did not want any handouts, just work.
The storied hotel near Grand Central Terminal served as election headquarters for New York Governor Thomas Dewey, who in 1948 was said to have wrongly announced from the Roosevelt that he had defeated Harry Truman for president.
The Holiday Inn, located in Manhattan's Financial District was also designated as a migrant shelter by the city's government.
In February, US Bankruptcy Judge Philip Bentley approved the hotel's application to sign a contract which will see the establishment house migrants to the tune of $190 a night - a fee that will total $100,000 a day for taxpayers.
It's not new for the city to
