Adams reverses course on plans to use
luxury Harlem complex as migrant shelter
after community outrage
New York Post,
by
Katherine Donlevy
Original Article
Posted By: Mercedes44,
2/17/2024 9:28:09 AM
Mayor Eric Adams stunningly reversed course on plans to turn an abandoned luxury Harlem condominium complex into a migrant shelter when he was met with community outrage Thursday night.
Adams’ change of heart came during a surprise appearance at a St. Nicholas House Resident Association meeting packed with dozens of residents furious over the city’s plan for a building development on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd once marketed as upscale housing.
The 35-story building was quietly slated to become a homeless shelter that could potentially house migrants — a plan that was only revealed to the community this week when some neighborhood residents saw workers bringing bed frames and mattresses inside.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/17/2024 9:31:35 AM (No. 1659622)
Actually, I think they're are some really large places out in the Hamptons where they could host them.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 2/17/2024 9:36:26 AM (No. 1659624)
How about putting them on buses and shipping them to DC?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Msquared112 2/17/2024 9:38:05 AM (No. 1659626)
Amazing how so many people ostensibly have good intentions until the cah-cah is in their own back yard.
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bighambone 2/17/2024 9:59:03 AM (No. 1659633)
The US citizen residents of Harlem, New York City and other inner city sanctuary cities should understand by now that Biden and the leftist and socialist Democrats believe that they have their votes in “the bag”. Remember when Biden expressed his reasoning on that issue by telling a Black man “If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t Black”. Since that is political reality, Biden and the leftist and socialist Democrats feel free to allow unlimited millions of Third World origin poor and uneducated non-English speaking illegal aliens into the USA in violation of the immigration laws, allowing them to travel all over the interior of the USA, and if they wish to resettle in the big leftist and socialist Democrat run cities. Once in those cities illegal aliens are highly dependent on all forms of government social services, welfare, and medical care to survive. To provide illegal aliens with all those services including providing the illegal aliens with “free” housing in those cities, the Democrat Mayors must reallocate big money that should be used to benefit resident US citizens, and instead use that money to benefit illegal aliens. The leftist and socialist Democrats are doing that to build up a new future leftist and socialist Democrat support and voter constituency made up of unlimited numbers of illegal aliens who they plan on granting a Democrat designed series of “path to citizenship” amnesty and other legalization programs that will bestow them with permanent residence alien status, US Citizenship, and most importantly to the leftist and socialist Democrats, US voting rights in the years ahead.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/17/2024 9:59:43 AM (No. 1659635)
Gee - - I thought Master B. Clinton rescued Harlem - - by opening an office there - - in 2001. I can remember all the fawning front-page stories - - and the photos with black "leaders."
But - - I can't remember any stories since - - about Master B. Clinton ever setting foot in Harlem again. Oh wait - - maybe it's because he was too busy saving Haiti. Yes - - that's it - - Haiti has been rescued too!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
padiva 2/17/2024 10:17:39 AM (No. 1659641)
Folks, ya gotta see how the wall signs were made.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Northcross 2/17/2024 10:53:30 AM (No. 1659660)
The prospect of losing a half million votes was quite convincing to the esteemed mayor.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FLCracker 2/17/2024 11:12:57 AM (No. 1659672)
Building seems to be a 5-story building, not a 35-story one, and it doesn't look very "lux" from the outside.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 2/17/2024 11:25:47 AM (No. 1659678)
There are plenty of schools in the area that the city does control for the Democrats to place their most important and only real concern, illegals. Democrats no longer need the votes of any American.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jalo1951 2/17/2024 12:20:32 PM (No. 1659702)
They believe the black community will continue to kiss the butt of the democrats because they always have. So no need to actually do anything. Their votes are in the bag. No one can prove this not to be true until the blacks walk away. Therefore it is now time to buy some new votes. Which is exactly what they are doing. With our tax money. This is a really ugly way to run a country. We are in such trouble.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 2/17/2024 4:50:46 PM (No. 1659805)
We have used a small family maid service for some 25 years. All legal Guatemaleans who paid a small fortune to some reptilian immigration lawyer to get them in legally. They are practically part of our family now and you won't ever meet better people. The daughter, now in her twenties, told me yesterday that the legal Hispanic community was up in arms and in a white hot rage at the administration allowing "migrants" to simply waltz across the border and given phones, EBT cards hotel shelter etc...all for free when Esperanza's family paid all they could scrape up and jumped through hoops to immigrate here the right way. Hopefully, this will turn the legal Hispanic community toward the Republicans but the Dem pols will probably simply promise to continue pouring out more benefits to buy their votes also. I think this country is doomed. I won't be around 25-50 years from now but, sometime in the future, the once great US will be studied just like the Fall of Rome is today. Pathetic and all on the heads of the vile and ruinous left who only want a totalitarian Marxist state (with them in charge of course).
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RussZilla 2/17/2024 5:04:19 PM (No. 1659815)
Boston’s Mayor Wu just did the same to a well-respected rec center in the black neighborhood of Roxbury. Residents don’t like it. We wait to see how she gets out of this one.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Omen55 2/17/2024 6:55:54 PM (No. 1659891)
Adams is learning that people want this to end or they will end him.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mifla 2/18/2024 5:34:57 AM (No. 1660091)
Kick the kids out of the public schools and house the illegals there. The kids aren't learning anything useful anyway.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
5 handicap 2/18/2024 5:51:32 AM (No. 1660108)
The rich criminals don't want the poor criminals anywhere near, it smells up the neighborhood! But But But, north of 125th street has always been set aside for the criminal scum of society! It's class warfare!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/18/2024 9:23:15 AM (No. 1660256)
#11, the price that illegals pay to come to America is still steep, the only difference is that it is paid to the Mexican cartels, not American Lawyers. Those people cross the Rio Grande with empty pockets. Yes, there are plenty of "nice" people mixed in with the looters, rapists and murderers now crossing the border in hordes but America does not have 25 years to learn the difference. They are doing incredible damage right now.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/18/2024 12:15:48 PM (No. 1660394)
Awww... poor Adams...obama/biden's regime is telling him what to do...and the locals are telling him what he better NOT DO...the price of being in charge...it's called leadership...so now what Mr. Mayor...not so easy is it?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jasmine 2/18/2024 1:19:33 PM (No. 1660458)
When it went into foreclosure, who became the owner of that building?
Who allowed it to sit vacant for ten years?
Why was it quietly, behind the backs of community residents, suggested as a resource that should be made available to Biden's illegal aliens? The problem of unhoused Americans, especially our veterans, has been around for decades. Curious as to why the first thought is to put unvetted, ungrateful illegal aliens into a brand new building with a swimming pool, while struggling American citizens (as usual) go without.
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