Around 600 migrant families could soon be kept at the Row NYC, once known as Milford Plaza, sources told the New York Post. The move comes amid a tiff with Texas, which has been sending busloads of migrants into the Big Apple, and a growing homelessness crisis in the city.
“They’re working on an agreement, a contract,” a source told the news outlet. “It’ll be here at this hotel, but they’ll keep the [Department of Homeless Services] shelter on a certain floor. But that hasn’t started yet. They said a month or two.”
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Prices for hotel rooms at the Row NYC change based on the time of booking and room type. A standard room with a queen-sized bed came in around $414 when scanned by the Washington Examiner.
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Behind the scenes, officials have been struggling to develop a strategy to harbor the migrants and ease the burden imposed on the city's shelters for the general homeless population.
City officials reportedly hastened plans to find a temporary shelter amid an inflow of asylum-seekers entering the city. New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) previously warned that the city's shelters were facing a surge of migrants.
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Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) has publicly confessed to seeking the Big Apple with busloads of migrants, including asylum-seekers, as his administration seeks to ease its migration sufferings and win political points with his base for shading blue cities. Since mid-April, the Lone Star State has shipped nearly 5,000 migrants in over 100 buses to such blue cities as Washington, D.C., and New York City.
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Adams has defended his city's perspective toward illegal immigrants and mulled over sending a bus of New Yorkers down to Texas to campaign against Abbott during the midterm elections.
"We should not blame people seeking to leave a place that is harmful to them. That's why I was at Port Authority greeting the bus," Adams added.
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An Adams administration rep told The Post on Monday only that the city has prolonged its deadline for receiving bids from entities interested in operating the massive undertaking at the hotel “to get a range of responses.”
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The representative said that the deadline for submitting bids is Wednesday. At the stately Row NYC on Eighth Avenue between West 44th and West 45th streets, guests are greeted by a scene similar to those at red-carpet events, with a carpeted section of sidewalk at its entrance and stone steps inlaid with decorative lights. A vinyl flag at the top of the stairs features the hotel’s logo — adding to the perfect setting for tourists and guests to take selfies and other photos.
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