Posted on 02/23/2023 3:53:44 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Big Apple’s public hospital system plans to spend more than $90 million to house migrants in four Midtown Manhattan hotels through the spring in response to President Biden’s border crisis, The Post has learned.
NYC Health + Hospitals CEO Mitchell Katz has approved $40 million in payments to the four-star Row NYC near Times Square and $28 million to the four-star Stewart Hotel across from Madison Square Garden, according to documents first reported by The City.
Last month, The Post revealed workers at the Row were throwing out nearly a ton of food daily because the migrants living there wouldn’t eat it.
Whistleblowing hotel employee Felipe Rodriguez also alleged that the once-trendy hotel — formerly known as the Milford Plaza, which advertised itself as the “Lullaby of Broadway” — had turned into a “free-for-all” of sex, drugs and violence.
Another $20 million is going to the Watson Hotel on West 57th Street in Hell’s Kitchen, where a group of migrants recently staged a protest against being relocated to a shelter in Brooklyn, and $5.8 million to the historic Wolcott Hotel on West 31st Street.
The planned $93.8 million in spending by H+H — which bypasses normal oversight procedures for city government contracts — follows an Oct. 13 agreement for the hospital system to manage and operate what Mayor Eric Adams calls migrant “Humanitarian Response and Relief Centers,” or HERRCs.
Last week, the seventh HERRC opened in the Wingate by Wyndham Hotel in Long Island City. The two other HERRCs are located in the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook and the world’s tallest Holiday Inn in Manhattan’s Financial District.
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Gitmo is closer.
Why are hospitals paying for the housing of illegals?
Yes, but the nice Reds who run New Zealand will be happy to house and feed illegal aliens.
Former HS official said each illegal will cost taxpayer a minimum of $1,000,000.
At least 10,000,000 have been let in.
Do the math.
As long as my tax dollars are not involved, I don't care. If my tax dollars ARE involved, color me enraged.
The border situation is not a crisis, it is a disaster and will remain such until Biden and Mayorakas are gone.
They should be housing them in prison camps, pending deportation.
Can’t they at least put them in the f#$@ mill motels along King’s Highway in Brooklyn? They’d fit right in, and it’s cheaper.
This
Just 2.5 years ago there was a 2500 bed facility in port. And another 2500 beds at the Javitz center. Why not ask Biden for them. Call it a mercy mission.
Since when it a hosptial’s responsibility to house illegals?
Another $20 million is going to the Watson Hotel on West 57th Street in Hell’s Kitchen
Hmm...CBS Headquarters is about a block away.
And NYC is holding its corrupt pockets out to its many retirees from teachers to firefighters and police, claiming they can't afford to continue to honor the City Charter promise of retiree healthcare. So they are trying to force retirees, who gave decades of service to the city, to accept vastly inferior healthcare while they stumble all over themselves to treat these illegal criminal invaders to all the comforts of home on taxpayer money. I'd love to see all the lawmakers and other NYC cretin libtard filth lined up against a wall for the attempt to seriously screw over people who worked so hard for decades in the expectation of what was guaranteed them.
Let’s start calling it the Rotten Apple! Much more descriptive.
Yes, but if we made a practice of shipping every illegal to Gitmo where they could have a choice of staying in the camp or walking into Cuba, it might actually discourage the next illegals from coming into our country in the first place.
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