#NYC: The chaos and indifference toward the needy migrants. Harry Siegel, TheCity.com
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#NYC: The chaos and indifference toward the needy migrants. Harry Siegel, TheCity.com
https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/04/18/migrants-exhausted-crowded-conditions-bathgate-st-brigid/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Bachelors with my colleague Harry Seagull, a senior editor at the city and online |
| 0:06.6 | journal columnist at the New York Daily News. |
| 0:09.8 | From Harris, the city reporting,. Bridges, a former Catholic school in the East Village, is now understood |
| 0:17.6 | to be a clearinghouse for migrants looking for a new posting. They move every few days, 30 days, 60 |
| 0:26.3 | days, it keeps moving around I can't remember. There was another one for |
| 0:30.3 | nighttime called Bathgate. Harry tells me that's now closed. St. Bridges, what happens |
| 0:36.0 | there Harry when the migrants who do not have a place to stay and sometimes don't have work? |
| 0:41.4 | What happens when they arrive there? What do they learn? So, John, this keeps |
| 0:47.2 | changing and it's complicated. So I'm going to answer that. I have to step back a little. |
| 0:52.0 | When migrants are I'm going to answer that, but I have to step back a little. |
| 0:53.0 | When migrants are pushed out of city shelters now, which happens an increasingly fast |
| 1:00.0 | kittens, New York had a right to shelter, which was very unique, that said anybody looking |
| 1:06.6 | for shelter here gets it that same day and nobody should be sleeping on the streets. |
| 1:10.0 | In effect, this came through a series of court decisions and so forth. There was just a big |
| 1:14.0 | negotiation because of all the migrants here and how they had strained that system that |
| 1:18.7 | undid some of that. So now, you know, you have single adults who have 30 days and families who have 60 days to figure out what they're doing, get money together. |
| 1:29.0 | And look, any regular New Yorker knows the getting first months, last months, and a security deposit, even with |
| 1:34.4 | help from mom and dad for some people, it's a lot of money and it's a difficult decline, |
| 1:40.0 | including for people who are working, then maybe people are coming here to work. |
| 1:44.0 | So in this instance, when people are evicted and you can't come before them |
| 1:48.0 | and thus don't have a place to stay, |
| 1:50.0 | they're supposed to go to St. |
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