9/19/2023 0 Comments Dumbo movers![]() The uncertainty is just too much for a part of Manhattan that needs all the love City Hall can show it. Recent immigrants to the United States lie on the sidewalk with their belongings as they talk to city officials in front of the Watson Hotel. Migrants have already brought havoc to streets near the Row and Stewart hotels, where fewer were put up than will be at the Roosevelt. Maybe the Roosevelt’s migrants will be model noncitizens eager to clean sidewalks and give directions to tourists.īut don’t bet on it. The state spent billions of dollars to give them an alternative to squalid Penn Station - now passengers might wonder if they never left it. Long Island Rail Road commuters who come to Manhattan through Grand Central are in for a shock. Gabriella Bassĭoes anyone believe that a migrant camp will help fill Madison Avenue’s many vacant storefronts such as the former Brooks Brothers flagship? Why shouldn’t landlords reconsider investing billions of dollars to modernize obsolete structures around the corner? The Roosevelt Hotel is being refurbished to house migrants. What sounder reasons will companies have for not leasing space nearby? What better excuse will workers have for staying home than a huge migrant shelter with its unpredictable consequences? Newly arrived asylum seekers wait in a holding area at the Port Authority bus terminal before being sent off to area shelters and hotels on May 15. The hotel stands within yards of the rising new JPMorgan Chase tower and many buildings where firms have struggled to bring employees back to their desks. Now hundreds or thousands of unemployed and perhaps unemployable illegal migrants will enjoy cozy digs amid great corporations and skyscrapers that contribute critical tax revenue to the municipal treasury. More office space stands empty in the district than in any other Manhattan submarket, according to Colliers’ first-quarter survey - 19% compared with 15.6% in Midtown overall. A migrant takeover will see to it that it never does. The Roosevelt area hasn’t rebounded as well as other office districts. It puts the Big Apple’s economy at risk, as well as its appeal to tourists and shoppers. That Mayor Eric Adams is desperate to house migrants doesn’t get him off the hook. A pop-up barnyard would be less inappropriate for the neighborhood. The unfathomable stroke of stupidity to fill the vacant hotel with “asylum seekers” threatens to abort East Midtown’s still-fragile recovery from the pandemic. This is the message sent by installing a migrants’ theme park in the Roosevelt Hotel, two blocks from Grand Central Terminal and steps from some of the city’s most important corporate headquarters. New Harlem office building will feature roof terrace, Trader Joe's NYC restaurant owners slam new street shed rules, saying it could kill business Why Kristin Richardson Jordan not seeking reelection is good for NYCīreakfast at Tiffany's is back - and it's just what Fifth Avenue needed Former Tunnel nightclub space readies for new spotlight after $1B revamp ![]()
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