The decisions to use the gym, to identify other city buildings as temporary housing and to send migrants upstate all come at a precarious moment for Mayor Adams and are among several signs that the city’s grasp of the situation is slipping away.
Mayor Adams, Sheriff Anthony Miranda and other city officials touted the pilot effort which played out in late November and early December as a critical counterweight against the wave of unlicensed weed that has washed over New York since the state legalized its recreational use in March 2021.
Adams’ comments come amid a renewed push for legislation that would create a reparations study commission in the Empire State, similar to a statewide panel established in California in 2020.
Adams recently met with the Daily News in an exclusive interview to demonstrate how he and other city officials track the data in real time and how the new system has enabled the city to more proactively remove the homeless encampments.
An embattled homeless shelter provider has secured at least $1.9 million in city funding since being under federal investigation on allegations that its executives used taxpayer cash to enrich themselves, the Daily News has learned.