Many asylum seekers who have refused to go to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal were camping out outside a Midtown hotel on Monday night in a standoff with Mayor Eric Adams. AliBaumanTV has the latest.
It's a problem city officials apparently didn't see coming -- asylum seekers who got used to the privacy of living in a hotel room don't want to move to a congregate shelter where everyone sleeps packed like sardines in a room with 1,000 cots.Mayor Eric Adams says proposed migrant shelter at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will be heated space
And here's why: instead of private rooms at the Watson, they are going to sleep in a massive room with hundreds of beds. "The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal is ugly. It's disgusting," one asylum seeker said through a translator.When asked if sleeping in a tent outside in Hell's Kitchen is better than going to the shelter in Brooklyn, one 22-year-old from Venezuela said,"It's not better, but we need to do it because we want a solution."
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