NYC To Shut Down Final Tax-Funded Hotel For Migrants

The American taxpayer, that beleaguered engine of state largesse, has been fleeced again. This time, the Biden administration’s open-handed approach to immigration, fueled by federal dollars, turned cities like New York into magnets for migrants, with Gotham alone burning through $170 million to house them in crime-plagued hotels like the Row NYC.

Under the banner of compassion, the Biden administration funneled billions in taxpayer funds to incentivize a migrant surge, effectively turning border towns and urban hubs into waystations for an influx of newcomers. New York City, ever eager to signal its progressive virtue, took the bait, transforming hotels like “The Row, NYC” into migrant shelters. The cost for that one shelter? That staggering $170 million mentioned above, siphoned from the pockets of working Americans to prop up a system that turned a blind eye to the crime and chaos spilling from these facilities. Residents near the Row reported rampant violence—stabbings, assaults, and open drug use—while city officials patted themselves on the back for “humanitarianism.”

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Of course, this wasn’t charity; it was a federally subsidized migration machine, with taxpayers forced to bankroll the operation while the mainstream media turned a blind eye to the proceedings.

“The Row NYC,” once a Midtown staple, became a symbol of this folly. Its 1,300 rooms, meant for tourists, were repurposed to house migrants at a cost of millions per month. The city’s deal with the hotel, inked under Mayor Eric Adams, ballooned to $325 per room per night, a figure that would make even the many travelers blanch. And for what? To warehouse people in a facility linked to 11 service calls per day for police and fire emergencies in 2024 alone, according to NYPD data.

The Biden administration’s policies didn’t just encourage this; they underwrote it, using federal grants to grease the wheels of municipal compliance. This was no organic migration—it was a taxpayer-funded population shift, engineered by D.C. bureaucrats with no constitutional mandate to meddle in immigration.

Rich Calder reports for The New York Post:

“The migrant crisis has cost city taxpayers more than $8 billion since spring 2022 to provide food, shelter and other services to over 238,000 migrants who flooded into the country because of former President Joe Biden’s lax border policies.”

New York’s shuttering of the Row NYC shelter marks the end of one chapter, but the story is far from over. The $170 million spent there is a drop in the bucket in government spending. The real cost isn’t just financial—it’s the erosion of constitutional fidelity and individual rights.