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Posted on 03/06/2026 4:15:22 PM PST by Libloather
New York City doesn’t have enough hotel rooms for hordes of visitors coming to this summer’s FIFA World Cup and should suspend the current restrictions on Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms, business leaders told Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin on Friday.
Groups including the Partnership for New York City and chambers of commerce for all five boroughs say the city must pause its short-term rental laws from June 1 to July 31 so more people can stay in the Big Apple during the games — along with celebrations for the country’s 250th anniversary and Fleet Week.
The groups said throngs of visitors expected to come for the special events won’t be able to land bookings at the city’s roughly 135,000 hotel rooms, where “occupancy already hovers near 97%.”
“Without additional capacity, hotel prices will surge beyond the reach of working families, spending will leak to New Jersey and the suburbs, and neighborhoods hosting events across the outer boroughs — where only 20% of hotel rooms are located — will see visitors but capture none of the overnight economic impact,” states a letter the business groups wrote the elected.
“New York will project to the world that it cannot manage the logistics of hospitality at the very moment it is hosting the planet’s biggest stage.”
The mayor’s office did not comment on the letter but said the administration will meet with business leaders next week to hear out their concerns ahead of the World Cup.
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Have they thought of getting rid of all the illegal aliens living in hotels in NYC?
It’s a win all the way around.
Be careful, Airbnb owners. The city might rent your room for the week for illegals and then make it impossible for you to move them out at the end of the week.
Fill the streets with old broken-down motor homes with no tires and no windows with glass in them. Then charge visitors 100.00 per day.
Have all the illegals invite alien knuckledraggers to move in with them.
Communist city hosting a third world sport. Who cares?
> Be careful, Airbnb owners. <
That happened to a friend of mine, in a semi-rural area no less. He rented his Airbnb room out. Then at the end of the week, the couple decided they simply weren’t leaving. And they stopped paying rent.
The cops wouldn’t intervene. They said it was a civil matter.
After a month or so of filing court papers, etc. my friend finally paid the couple to leave. I was curious about how much he paid them. But I didn’t ask, as I didn’t want to embarrass him.
What a disaster. NJ will be filled with even more third world trash.
Maybe they should offer discounts for Al Qaeda terrorists.
Roll a ball out onto a field at Yasger’s farm for Woodstock II!
Per AI, metro New York City only has 126,000 hotel rooms available.
Huh? The 2026 FIFA World Cup games in “New York” will be played at MetLife Stadium in the Meadowlands.
I don’t see why hotel capacity in Manhattan is critical to a suburban NJ event.
Sensible people will want to avoid NYC anyhow. The people who run FIFA, of course, are all in on the high roller/grifter circuit, so they will probably want to stay in Mamdaniville and take their limos and private helicopters over for the game.
If there’s justice in the world, limos will get stuck in traffic and the swells will miss the games.
Is he going to clean all the poop, garbage, and tents off the street? Embarrassing.
EXACTLY what I was thinking.
“Without additional capacity, hotel prices will surge beyond the reach of working families...”
With or without additional capacity, hotel rooms in NYC have been out of reach of working families for many years.
Exactly.
And sending the illegal aliens back home?!
How many illegal aliens are still occupying hotel rooms for free?
Who the hell wants to go to NYC for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence?
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