That Bidenville tent city that just last month was going up on New York City’s “penal colony” island is coming back down, Mayor Adams announced yesterday.
The move comes in response to a reported decrease in migrant arrivals. It’s not immediately clear what caused that, as the rate of migrants coming across the border certainly hasn’t slackened. Moreover, Operation Lonestar in Texas, which started the busing, is still underway, having just sent its 300th bus north, this one to Chicago. It could be that some passengers on the NYC-bound buses have started de-busing early before reaching the city, upon realizing that Adams has prepared only a tent for them. And it could be resulting from the City of El Paso having altogether ceased its export of migrants, being out of bus fare. At any rate, no matter the reason, NYC is shipping the unknown number of single men currently being housed on Randall’s Island to a hotel in Midtown Manhattan.
You might remember that Randall’s Island was not Mayor Adams’s first choice for a dumping ground host site for his new residents. Orchard Beach in the Bronx was the first Bidenville, but it was flooded out in, like, two days, so the peripatetic new New Yorkers were on the move again and now yet again. This time to the 600-room Watson Hotel, an empty property in the Hell’s Kitchen section that was most recently used as a homeless shelter during the Covid pandemic.
The City is still attempting to secure funding from Albany and Washington to house, feed, and entertain all its illegal charges, which now number at least 17,500. Adams estimates a cool one billion dollars would be about right.
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