New York City Mayor Eric Adams was questioned and criticized on Sunday about a plan to house illegal immigrants in apartments with a swimming pool and marble bathrooms.
The plan would see immigrants housed in what Spectrum News described as an “unused luxury apartment building” at 2201 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., which upset some attendees of a community forum in Harlem.
Two people had to be escorted out of the meeting as tensions ran high, and some community members brought signs with slogans such as, “Millions on migrants. What about youth programs?”
“We already have a homeless shelter,” Tyrone Ball of Harlem told Spectrum News. “You go outside this building, there is a huge shelter and another shelter up the block beyond that. We don’t need another one.”
Other attendees were happy with Adams’s response,
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