Migrants turn New York hotel into ‘free access for everyone’ with violence and drugs: employee

A once-trendy Manhattan hotel has become wildly “universal” with sex, drugs and violence after the city began housing migrants there, an employee said Tuesday.

New York-based Row worker Felipe Rodriguez, who told The Post earlier this month that migrants are throwing away “tons” of prepared food at the hotel, said the facility has now fallen into “complete chaos.”

“Chaos, total chaos,” Rodriguez told Fox & Friends when asked to describe the conditions at the hotel. “There is no responsibility.

“There is no daily oversight to show these people that…” You are not destroying your hotel. You are only there temporarily. This is not your home.

“[The employees] endure a lot of disrespect from migrants, and there [are] there are good migrants, but too much alcohol, too much drugs and too much violence, and you have teenagers … go up the stairs and kiss like it’s lovers’ lane, ”Rodriguez said. “It’s free for everyone.

The hotel, which has been refurbished to handle the sudden influx of migrants into the city, is just blocks away from the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen, where dozens of asylum seekers have camped for days to protest their move to new Brooklyn housing. .

Rodriguez, who works as a jogger at Row NYC, said the hotel workers were the ones who ended up paying the price in the anarchy. He said he was forced to go on disability after he was injured trying to deliver a refrigerator through a “cluttered” room.

Rodriguez told Fox that the hotel makes more money from the city than it would if it hosted guests.

Row NYC did not immediately respond to the Post’s request for comment.

More than 43,000 migrants have arrived in New York since the spring, with about 26,000 of them staying in city hotels, according to Mayor Eric Adams’ office.

During a visit to the southern border earlier this month, Adams said migrants should be warned that there is “no more room for them in New York” as the cost of the crisis reached an estimated $2 billion.

“In New York, you will go there, you will live in a crowded environment, that there is no place in New York anymore. This should be coordinated by our national government,” he told reporters.

The 50 or so protesters outside the Watson Hotel, who are all single men, are understandably upset about being flipped from their three-star hotel, where there were no more than two, to a hangar room at Brooklyn Cruise. Terminal at Red Hook.

President Biden, who visited the Manhattan side of the Chelsea Hudson River Tunnel project, refused to visit the protesters who huddled under blankets outside the 57th Street hotel, joined by activists.

Adams publicly pleaded with the White House for $1 billion in emergency aid to migrants and called the situation a “catastrophe”.

He planned to tour the project with Biden and Hochul, but the tour was canceled when Biden arrived too close to the start of the event, sources told The Post.

After that, Adams had the opportunity to speak with Biden “in private”, according to a city hall source. The mayor told the president, “I want to talk to you about the asylum situation,” and they agreed to schedule a later time, the source added.

Brooklyn’s massive 1,000-person mega shelter consists of hundreds of racks lined up side by side, covered in a green blanket and one white pillow, according to footage shared with The Post on Monday.

Many migrants complain about the lack of warmth and privacy in the institution, as well as its relative remoteness from city life due to the lack of a subway.