Mayor Eric Adams warned New Yorkers on Monday the migrant crisis is coming “to a neighborhood near you”
“Eventually this is going to come to a neighborhood near you, and it is — 91,000 people,” Adams told reporters.
Hizzoner added that the White House is simply not doing what it needs to do, including providing money to the city for the massive influx of migrants
Some of the asylum-seekers stuck outside the Roosevelt told The Post they had been waiting days for beds, which City Hall is legally obligated to provide under the decades-old “right to shelter” court settlements.
Meanwhile, nearby storekeepers have complained that the sidewalk encampments are crushing their business.
Adams’ budget office estimates the crisis will cost New York City approximately $4.3 billion over its first two years. Biden has provided or promised just $143 million, a fraction of the $1 billion aid package delivered by Albany.
And the mayor is not alone in his anger about the liaison and the White House’s deaf ear.
The paltry offer left Democrats typically supportive of the Dem president fuming, with one remarking in a front-page Post story over the weekend that the White House was borrowing a page from former President Gerald Ford when he famously told New York City to “Drop Dead” in 1975 over trying to get federal funds to bail it out.