Posted on 02/16/2024 9:47:45 PM PST by Libloather
Furious Harlem residents forced New York Mayor Eric Adams into a humiliating u-turn on plans to house migrants in an empty luxury apartment building after they spotted bunk-beds being discreetly delivered.
The WA condominium off 130th Street promised buyers an indoor swimming pool, marble bathrooms and a rooftop running track, before the project was put on ice in a neighborhood with a chronic housing shortage.
Schools, nursing homes and a string of landmark hotels have been requisitioned to house many of the 170,000 migrants who have arrived in the city since the spring of 2022.
But neighbors of the condominium in Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard were determined it was not going to go the same way.
'We were trying to find out what was going on, and we weren't getting any answers to our questions,' neighbor Regina Smith told CBS.
The Mayor faced an angry reception when he agreed to meet residents at an emergency meeting on Thursday night.
'You are the mayor. We do not want to hear excuses,' one told him.
'No, I don't agree with it turning into a sanctuary for asylum seekers knowing we have people right here that need the space,' said Tiffany Fulton of Silent Voices United.
'We should have been informed I'm looking for answers.'
The 35-apartment development was marketed as a luxury doorman building complete with granite countertops in kitchens a state-of-the-art fitness center and marble bathrooms.
But it has sat empty for more than a decade, appearing briefly as a location in a 2021 episode of Law & Order SVU when it was served as the exterior for the 'Camino Family Center'.
'WA Condominiums is one of the newest condominiums in the storied neighborhood of Central Harlem,' the developer's website promises.
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Did he ever really move anything there? Or did he just rent a space, have some photo-ops showing how much he cared for the locals and maybe kept a couple of part time employees there to man the door and tell people that XXX-42 wasn’t there right now?
There’s only so much money to go around - and it’s going to the ‘migrants’. Democrats have made their choice - actopms speak louder than words.
NYC now has RCV for a reason.
Gothamites, want your city back...?
THEN SECURE YOUR DAMN ELECTIONS.
They were told what could happen if they didn’t abide by the idea that everybody must be protected.
NYC gets the government tbey elect...
If these Democrat Sanctuary cities house the illegals in hotels, it will be easy for a President Trump DHS to round them up, weed out the terrorist types for “special” attention, and send the rest back to their homelands.
The Democrats need them to start Civil WAR II in the US because MAGA didn’t take the bait. During a Civil War the Democrats can take whatever they want.
Won’t work. They’ll just drop their urine and feces on the floor wherever the urge takes them.
Blacks will still Vote Democrat at least 85% probably 90%. They can’t seem to learn that their stupid votes caused the problem. In fact Democrats of all colors are too stupid to makes this connection.
So the "migrants" were not going to have any plumbing?
Well, it’s combining “Harlem” & “luxury”.
Why house them? They are here illegally and should be sent home.
Adams says screw you I’m taking care of our(democrat’s) Illegals with YOUR MONEY again
Time for Abbott to bus some more wetbacks to NYC.
Well, they may be THAT stupid,but somehow, I think more of them are about to wake up, like they are in NYC.
The Dem slave plantation is changing over from black Americans to latino illegal alien refugees.
We’ll see in November. I really hope I’m wrong, but everything I’ve seen suggests that rather than question their beliefs, humans prefer to rationalize away the discrepancies between reality and their thoughts rather than change their beliefs. E.g. Liberals fleeing leftist shtholes like NY, MA, NJ, CA,etc and work at turning their new locales into copies of what the ruined. Anecdotal evidence my wife’s sister is a Democrat. She believes inflation is caused by greedy companies making too large a profit. She is not a stupid person, but she is unwilling to change her beliefs so she rationalizes away reality with the flimsiest of excuses that anyone with a smattering intelligence could see right through. I’m not optimistic.
M Aybe your sister will change when she can no longer afford groceries or gas.
EVery person has to take their own individual dosage of “smarten up.”Some take longer than others.
So the black voting bloc will only vote 109% for democrats instead of the usual 110%
Sooner or later I think that most everyone will see that the real answer to the illegals is to send them all back to where they came from. This doesn’t mean they couldn’t at some time later attempt to enter the U.S. legally & become citizens. Some of them at least. There are probably many of them we wouldn’t want as citizens or in any other mode.
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