Mayor claims migrants are taking up nearly half of city hotel rooms amid surge, but quickly revised that figure

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Nearly half of the city’s available hotel rooms are currently occupied by asylum seekers and there are few rooms left to accommodate an expected surge in migrants following the expiration of Title 42 last week, Mayor Eric Adams claimed Wednesday.

But City Hall and the mayor himself quickly revised that claim.