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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Who pays for any damage? Insurance companies were called after the looting finally ended, no?
illegals = hospitals = hotel lodging......
I don’t get it. I thought all hospitals were crying the blues about being broke... Must be they plan on gouging whatever patients they have - at least the insurance companies.
It sounds like they need more. Amp it up to $900 billion.
Damages? Why are they getting free room and board and free medical care to begin with? They are here illegally!!!!! Needy US citizens get nothing like this...........
How much on homeless veterans?
I thought they were staying at the Hilton. No wonder they are protesting. They want an upgrade with room service. 🤣
“ The planned $93.8 million in spending by H+H — which bypasses normal oversight procedures for city government contracts..”
Here’s the key part.
No oversight.
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The Row’s website says it is closed until further notice, to normal hotel clientele, I suppose. Recent reviews on Trip Advisor confirm the problems. Photos on Trip Advisor show what looked...looked...like a very nice place.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Better idea: Put them on a boat and sail them one way to New Zealand.
Millions for illegals, but zero for Americans in Palestine, Ohio. Ain’t life in Biden’s Amerika grand? (sarc)
No way hospitals can afford this. Only if there is a federal/Medicare slush fund to reimburse the facilities.
NY—Don’t make the mistake California did housing people in first class hotels: Make certain the gold foil wrapped Godiva chocolate is on the pillow every day——every day. Complaints are severe if people are getting dissed.
Exactly. Taxpayers are footing the bill, as always.
And a view
I stayed many nights in that hotel. Room was really closet sized with a double
Bed crammed in. Probably typical NY. That was in the 80s. Must be really glamorous now.
Send them to a -7 star flea bag hotel in the hood
Wow
We have found the way to massively accelerate the damage in libtard cities.
Exactly. It's probably from available COVID blood money.
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