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Kamaji:
NYC moving migrants into famed luxury Times Square hotel

By Bernadette Hogan, Nolan Hicks, Jack Morphet and Bruce Golding
August 15, 2022

A luxury Manhattan hotel once touted as the “Lullabuy of Broadway” will soon be providing beddy-bye to hundreds of asylum-seeking migrants, The Post has learned.

Mayor Eric Adams plans to convert the Row NYC — formerly known as the Milford Plaza and located in pricey tourist-packed Times Square — into an intake center and shelter for as many as 600 migrant families amid the city’s spiraling homelessness crisis, three sources familiar with the matter said.

“In a month or two, we’re about to open up for [the city Department of Homeless Services], for homeless,” a hotel staffer told The Post on Monday.

“They’re working on an agreement, a contract,” the worker said of the plan, which is designed to help handle homeless border-crossers bused to the city from Texas.

“It’ll be here at this hotel, but they’ll keep the DHS shelter on a certain floor. But that hasn’t started yet, they said a month or two.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/15/row-nyc-hotel-being-turned-into-migrant-shelter/

Kamaji:
Should rename it Biden Towers.

Gefn:
The Milford Plaza use to be really posh, and I remember their adverts on tv.

“The lullaby of Broadway”

Smokin Joe:
They do this for 'border crossers', but not native homeless?

sneakypete:
This is almost certainly a pay-off to the hotel owner,who no doubt contributed  cash to Dim candidates.

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