New York City is officially a border town.
According to a report from The New York Post, Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams has no locations left for the thousands of migrants pouring into his city every month —so he’s building more.
The crisis is “stretching our system to its breaking point and beyond,” Adams stresses. “It has become more and more of a Herculean effort to find enough beds every night,” he added.
His solution: build new shelters for 2,000 migrant men on Randall’s Island soccer fields —the same ones where children have their games.
From The New York Post:
A Randall’s Island source said the city informed local officials Monday morning that it was erecting the massive makeshift shelter on athletic Fields 82, 83, 84 and 85 — with “construction slated to begin as early as today.”
Opponents of the new planned shelter raged to The Post last week that the project flies in the face of decades of efforts to build up the sports fields for young people, including those looking for positive ways to stay off the streets.
“Surely a less precious space can be found, rather than alienating parkland, perhaps by using private rather than public space,” Randall’s Island Park Alliance co-Chairs Jonathan May and Nancy Neff wrote in a blistering letter to Deputy Mayor for Operations Meera Joshi last week.
Construction of the housing means over 3,000 hours of recreation for both public and private school children, as well as adult sports leagues, would be canceled, the pair said.
“Behind every hour lost are dozens of New York City children who are denied space and time to play,” they said.
Full story over at The New York Post:
It’s official: Migrant shelter for 2,000 men to be built starting as early as Monday on Randall’s Island soccer fields https://t.co/t7KmIZ387Q pic.twitter.com/mp5v5yA2hB
— New York Post (@nypost) August 7, 2023
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