World’s tallest Holiday Inn booked solid by Eric Adams for NYC migrants
Story by Bernadette Hogan, Bruce Golding New York City is converting the world’s tallest Holiday Inn hotel into the Big Apple’s sixth mega-shelter for its surging migrant population, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday.
The deal will supply 492 rooms for adult families and single women, Adams said in a statement.
“With more than 44,000 asylum seekers arriving in the last 10 months alone, we have helped provide shelter and support to nearly as many asylum seekers as the number of New Yorkers we already had in our shelter system when we first came into office,” he said.
Terms of the contract weren’t announced, but The Post reported last month that the owner of the 50-story hotel in Manhattan’s Financial District had an agreement in place to charge NYC Health + Hospitals a nightly rate of $190 per room.
At full capacity, that would amount to $93,500 a day, or an estimated $10.5 billion through May 1, 2024.
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