Dear New Yorkers, After about 15 days in Houston, Alejandro Suarez and Maria Roa arrived Friday at LaGuardia Airport with their 10-year-old boy and baby daughter. They stood among revolving baggage carousels as Suarez made calls to a person he did not know, who would get them to wherever they would be going next. In response to the predicted influx of migrants after Title 42 ended last week, Mayor Eric Adams issued an emergency order last week that suspends aspects of New York City’s right-to-shelter policy in order to increase flexibility in siting emergency shelters. Nontraditional locations in use or under evaluation include multiple school gyms, an unused prison, and hotels in the Hudson Valley. But first, many of the new New Yorkers have to get out of LaGuardia Airport. An untold number of migrants are now arriving via plane, after receiving tickets from aid groups. And they land with little guidance on next steps. “We’re getting constant calls from employees, and even Port Authority Police Department, at the airports,” said Power Malu, executive director of the aid group Artists Athletes Activists. “They’re constantly finding migrants just, like, stranded, sitting around, looking for help to get to shelter to find their way through the city. And so they call us.” Read more here. Some other items of note: Mayor Eric Adams’ transition team was fined nearly $20,000 by the city’s Campaign Finance Board after the CFB found that between Adams’ election in 2021 and his inauguration in early 2022, his transition staff accepted thousands of dollars of prohibited donations. They also failed to respond properly to requests for information, and to wind down “transition and inauguration expense” activities. Still, Adams’ team will pay less than half of the $50,000 in violations originally recommended by the board’s counsel. It’s been four years since 161 Maiden Lane was scheduled to open. But the future of the partly built luxury condo tower near Wall Street has been up in the air ever since developers realized the entire structure was leaning slightly to the north. And that’s not all. The FDNY recently declared it a fire hazard, too. Yesterday, the New York Taxi Workers Alliance sued to put the brakes on a new pilot plan for some taxis serving the outer boroughs. The Taxi & Limousine Commission had planned to issue 2,500 licenses to cabs that could only be hailed from bases instead of on the street, and charge by flat fare instead of meter. The move was panned by some drivers — and the lawsuit says it’s “in direct conflict with state law.” For the latest local numbers on COVID-19 hospitalizations, positivity rates and more, check our coronavirus tracker.
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