Hi, Brian Lair here. Up next, Brian Lair Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week,

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situation for asylum seekers arriving in New York City and the challenge for Mayor Adams and really for us

all have apparently entered a new and more intense phase just in the last week. You've probably heard

her seen by now that since the weekend lots of recently arrived people have been sleeping on the

street outside the intake center at the Roosevelt Hotel on East 45th Street. There may be nobody there

right now according to reports I'm getting this morning, but it doesn't mean this phase is over. The

mayor says the intake center is full. He's been saying all year that the city is full.

Our Liz Kim reports the mayor is considering tents in Central Park,

Prospect Park, and closing off some Randall's Island Socrates fields to adult and youth games and

placing tents there. Now every attempt at opening new temporary shelters in the city or in nearby

counties outside seems to be met with a not in my backyard protest whether the shelters are for

single men or families with children. The mayor insists the Biden administration still owes the

city a lot more help. Some advocates claim the mayor is using asylum seekers as props by letting

them sleep outside for Washington to see, but the mayor says not at all. We have run out of ideas

and I just really need people to understand every day this team is figuring out what do we put

the next body. So what does the city do now? And what do the asylum seekers do now? Now number

in close to 100,000 since the first bus from Texas arrived a year ago this week. Let's talk to

two journalists reporting on the situation and of course we'll take your calls and comments and

stories and questions. Our Liz Kim WNYC and Gothamist reporter covering mayor Adams and other

New York City politics. And Andy Newman who covers poverty and social services for the New York

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