NYC to House Migrants in School Gyms


Just throw the buggers any old place.

We’ll figure it out later.

New York Post:

Mayor Eric Adams insisted Tuesday morning that migrants being housed in school gyms is only a possibility — despite photos this week showing beds set up inside several Brooklyn gymnasiums and principals warning their parents about the move.

Adams maintained that the city has not yet become so inundated with migrants that they need to be housed in school gyms, saying those who were photographed in a Brooklyn gymnasium over the weekend were there for only “a few hours.”

About 4,200 migrants arrived in the Big Apple last week, and another 15 buses are expected this weekend.

We have 20 stand-alone gymnasiums throughout the city that are not part of the school building. They are on the list of potential locations we may have to use,” Adams told PIX 11.

“We’re not there yet, but we need a list to be prepared so that if this influx continues, we can accommodate.”

Adams’ claim of “potential locations” comes after at least 75 migrants were at least temporarily held at PS 188 in Coney Island on Sunday.

The principal of the school had alerted parents in a letter Friday that the school was chosen as one of the “emergency, temporary sites to house individuals and families who are seeking asylum” in the city.

Migrants were photographed laying across green cots and milling around outside the stand-alone Brooklyn gymnasium before they were apparently whisked away to an old abandoned school in Staten Island.

It’s unclear how long the migrants were held on Coney Island this weekend and if the outrage their presence caused was part of the reason they were quickly sent off to Staten Island.

“The building on Staten Island was a closed school that was about to be demolished. The school was closed,” Adams said.

The former Richard H. Hungerford School on Tompkins Avenue in Staten Island was set up to receive at least 300 migrants Saturday, though it’s unclear if that is the location the migrants housed at Coney Island were taken Sunday.

At least six Brooklyn schools have been prepped to start temporarily housing migrants inside their gyms, including MS 577 in Williamsburg, which shares a gym with PS 17, as well as PS 18 and PS 132 in Williamsburg, PS 172 in Sunset Park and PS 189 near Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.

MS 577 Principal Maria Masullo said in a letter to parents Sunday the impact of housing of migrants on school property would be minimal.

The plan is literally “just throw the buggers any old place – we’ll figure it out later.”

The strange thing is that people don’t really even seem to care that much anymore.

This is much, much worse than the “caravan” thing a couple years ago. I mean, it could be 20 times worse – no one has any idea, actually.

But you don’t see the same outrage.

I think the Covid scam maybe broke the American spirit. Or maybe it was January 6 that did that.