NYC Mayor Eric Adams Quits on Migrants Camped on Sidewalk

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams Quits on Migrants Camped on Sidewalk



Each weekday morning, commuters stream from Grand Central Terminal to begin another day at the center of the biggest and richest city in America.

Those exiting the east side pass by the Yale Club across the street and continue on to buildings housing billion-dollar hedge funds and big-shot law firms.


But in the past few days those who head uptown have suddenly encountered a scene that disgraces every level of government, from the mayor to the governor to the president. As many as 200 migrants are camped on scraps of cardboard outside the Roosevelt Hotel, the bright sunshine making them look all the more worn and weary from the long and off harrowing journeys that should have brought them to at least a bed and a shower.

“WELCOME TO THE ARRIVAL CENTER,” reads a smudged message on a whiteboard propped outside the hotel’s main entrance.

More than 90,000 migrants have arrived in the city since the spring of 2020. A good number of them—as many as eight busloads a day—were sent north from the southern border by Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott, whose idea of leadership is to seek political points by turning a big blue city’s decency against itself.

For decades, New York has been under a legal obligation—arising from a 1979 lawsuit by an advocate for the homeless—to provide shelter to those in need. Its immediate ability to cope with such an influx has maxed out and neither the feds nor the state are coming to the rescue even though the city pays both far more in taxes than it receives in services and benefits.

Last Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams met with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose idea of assistance was to offer to send a single staff member to New York. That paltry gesture seemed all the more insulting as Adams inspected the scene outside the Roosevelt Hotel on Saturday and again on Sunday.

But, rather than seize the situation as a challenge in the way of a great leader, Adams simply quit.

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