Speaker blasts Adams admin’s late night sweep of migrants outside Watson Hotel

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City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams on Thursday rebuked Mayor Eric Adams’ decision to clear out several dozen migrants who were camped outside Midtown Manhattan’s Watson Hotel, protesting the city’s push to relocate them from the hotel to a mega-shelter in Brooklyn since Sunday.

The sweep, conducted by the NYPD and city Department of Sanitation staffers, took place just before 8 p.m. Wednesday night. The group of migrants were reportedly given two options for where to relocate: either a new 1,000-bed shelter housed in Red Hook’s Brooklyn Cruise Terminal or one of the city’s men’s shelters.