Mayor Eric Adams is opening another two big emergency migrant shelters as the southern border crisis continues to push New York City to its limits — and President Biden has still not jumped in to help.
One is set to open in Times Square’s vacant Candler Tower office building, which was once home to a 24-hour McDonald’s restaurant long billed as the busiest and most profitable of its kind in the US.
But the landmark fast-food joint was shuttered during the city’s COVID-19 lockdown in June 2020 and the building’s owner, UK-based investment company EPIC, reportedly signed over the deed in March 2022 to avoid foreclosure.
The other shelter will be located in a six-story commercial building at 455 Jefferson St, Brooklyn.
All but one of the 103 emergency shelters now being used to house migrants are located in hotels across the five boroughs.
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