A luxury Manhattan hotel will soon be used to provide housing to hundreds of illegal migrants, according to the New York Post.
The outlet reported that Democratic Mayor Eric Adams plans to convert the Row NYC, formerly known as the Milford Plaza and nicknamed the “Lullaby of Broadway” in Times Square, into an intake center and shelter for as many as 600 migrant families.
The mayor’s office has not released any details but did tell the New York Post on Monday that the city has extended its deadline for receiving bids from organizations interested in operating the center.
The daily weekday rate for a standard room with one full or queen bed in mid-September ranges from $414.42 to $435.07 per night and “Superior” rooms with two double or queen beds range in price from $445.40 to $547.41, including taxes and fees.
A one-bedroom executive suite with views costs $724.24 per night with taxes and fees included.
According to The Post, “At the stately Row NYC on Eighth Avenue between West 44th and West 45th streets, guests are greeted by a scene similar to those at red-carpet events, with a carpeted section of sidewalk at its entrance and stone steps inlaid with decorative lights. A vinyl banner at the top of the stairs features the hotel’s logo — adding to the perfect setting for tourists and guests to snap selfies and other photos.”
The hotel amenities include a gourmet restaurant, bar, business center with iMac computers that provide 30 minutes of free internet, and a complete state-of-the-art fitness center
The outlet reported that the mayor’s plan for the hotel was fast-tracked to attempt to address the surge of migrants arriving in the city. The deal was made with the hotel after the Department of Homeland Security quietly issued a request for proposals last week.
The hotel is located about three blocks north of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, where Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has been sending busloads of migrants in response to what he calls President Joe Biden’s “irresponsible open border policies” that are overwhelming border communities.
In July, Adams said that the city’s homeless shelter system was being overwhelmed by migrants, some of whom were sent to New York by federal immigration officials.
Deep discounts on the hotel’s website suggest it is struggling for business. The de Blasio administration during COVID spent almost $300 million to shelter those without housing in hotels that were suffering due to policies that affected tourism during the Covid pandemic.
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Democratic Mayor Eric Adams plans to convert the Row NYC, formerly known as the Milford Plaza and nicknamed the “Lullaby of Broadway” in Times Square, into an intake center and shelter for as many as 600 migrant families.
Hey Mayor, does that include ROOM SERVICE? And maybe a Spanish speaking butler?
AND ALL Paid for, by WE The tax victims!
Who care not much for their new lullabies of Broadway Like ”
“Hush Little Baby don’t say a word,
The election was stolen but we don’t want it heard,
And if the election looks in Jeopardy,
Joe ‘s bill will buy your vote from the treasury,
If their Immigration smoke and mirror gets broke,
The President will look like a Billy goat,
If within your mommy’s tummy you hear the abortion word said,
You can count kick her all you want but you’ll soon be dead.”
Hi MadeinAmeria33. Does it include food and drinks. Laundry service. Just thinking.
Sure, they have to take care of NEW left wing voters.
Yea, i wouldn’t put it past the mayor, to already be adding everyone of them, to the dem’s voter rolls in nyc.
YOU CAN NOT FIX STUPID.
suffer nyc.
And within a week, the whole place will be totally trashed. Will never ever see another real paying customer.
Interesting that this plan was for a luxury hotel.
Not a general random hotel priced for the average consumer that might be suffering because of lack of tourism and the inflated cost of living, especially in NYC.
No, a luxury hotel. With accommodations.
They tried this in San Francisco. It was a disaster, leaving the hotels that were used, all of them also higher end to luxury, in disastrous conditions after they called it quits.
Now, New York City is giving homeless refuge, evidently including illegal migrant trespassers, who are being put up in rooms We the general public could never hope to enjoy, and as Ituser stated, using money from taxpayers, legal citizens, the cattle who get milked dry and then turned into hamburger, who are forced to subsidize wealthy people who buy electric cars we can never afford, and are now being told we get to subsidize and pay for perks to people not only above Us, but now below Us, that we have no chance of enjoying ourselves.
Welcome my friends to Biden’s America. Or as I call it, Geriatric Park.
duh-duh duh-duh duh-duh-duhhh duh-duh duh-duhhh…
(with apologies to Michael Chrichton and John Williams)
And one wonders, DID THE HOTEL have any say in the matter?
From what I gathered from reports at the time, in San Francisco the hotels were told to volunteer their rooms and services, paid for of course, by taxpayer money. But the money they got was nothing compared to the damage done to the rooms that were used for homeless housing.
And I read that, unsurprisingly, after the homeless were assigned their rooms, reservations went down dramatically.
Who’d of thought?
Glad that I left.
I concur, I’m glad I left when I did.
cant you see in the future that they will move american citizens out in the streets and give these illegals your houses and appartments?
i put nothing past what a demented liberal democrat will do.
I can certainly SEE the dems, pushing bills, that SEIZE AMERICANS properties, especially say ‘holiday/2nd homes’, and just GIVES them to illegals..