January 30 2023 MANHATTAN, New York – Migrants are sleeping in makeshift tents and blankets, on the cold streets outside of Manhattan Hotel, refusing a transfer from Watson Hotel to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook, due to what they described as bad “ICE Box” cold conditions.
On a Sunday afternoon, asylum seekers staying at Midtown hotel on West 57th were told they will be transferred to a camp type shelter location at a Brooklyn terminal in Red Hook. As they heard of conditions under which they would be living, from those already at the terminal, they refused to get on the transfer bus.
Hotel Watson in Midtown will now only take in families, single men are no longer allowed and have been asked to transfer to a mass shelter in Brooklyn.
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