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Elementary school students return to P.S. 188 for in-person learning in September 2020. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images | As New York City scrambles to house asylum-seekers now that the federal border policy known as Title 42 has lapsed, public school communities have been dragged into the fray. The Adams administration is planning to put migrants in a stand-alone gym at P.S. 188 in Coney Island — a move that angered some neighbors who said they were not aware of the decision and thought it was an inappropriate place for the newcomers to live. “This school gym belongs to students of P.S. 188 and to the Coney Island community!” Council Member Ari Kagan, whose district includes the school, wrote on Facebook Friday. City Hall spokesperson Fabien Levy told POLITICO on Friday that school programming will not be affected. Although they added at the time that the P.S. 188 gym was unoccupied, that changed by Sunday, when CBS New York reported that adult men and women were living there. A former public school on Staten Island also started taking in migrants. Schools have entered the mix just as education officials try to navigate a new law mandating lower class sizes. Department of Education officials were already anticipating challenges with fulfilling the requirement in the coming years and school buildings becoming emergency shelters for migrants could complicate those efforts. Mayor Eric Adams announced over the weekend that the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan will serve as a migrant resource center. “We received more than 4,200 asylum seekers this past week alone and continue to receive hundreds of asylum seekers every day,” Levy said in a statement. “We are opening emergency shelters and respite centers daily, but we are out of space. We will continue to communicate with local elected officials as we open more emergency sites.” Immigration advocates are worried that treating the influx of migrants as a crisis would only foment anti-immigrant sentiment in a city that’s served as a beacon for refugees for centuries. “Increases in immigrants are not something to be feared,” Andrea Ortiz, senior manager of education policy at the New York Immigration Coalition, said in an interview. “In fact, immigrants bring wonderful diversity to our classrooms, they bring culture, they bring outside experiences.” IT’S MONDAY. WHERE’S KATHY? In Albany, signing health care legislation. WHERE’S ERIC? In New York City with no announced public schedule.
| | | | A message from UPS: You don’t need a college degree or an executive title to have success at UPS. Both full- and part-time union employees receive industry-leading wages, low-to-no-cost health care, pension benefits, tuition assistance and more. Learn more | | | |  | ABOVE THE FOLD | | New York leaders say Hochul is MIA during migrant crisis, by POLITICO’s Joseph Spector: On an hourlong call Thursday to discuss the growing migrant crisis in the state, county leaders and New York City Mayor Eric Adams all recognized one missing attendee: Gov. Kathy Hochul. While Hochul says she is working behind the scenes to address the surge of asylum-seekers, she faces calls for a stronger statewide strategy on how to house more than 65,000 migrants who have moved to New York City over the past year — as thousands more are expected to arrive with the expiration of the pandemic-era border policy Title 42. “Eric Adams Says He’s a Progressive. Democrats Beg to Differ,” by The New York Times’ Emma G. Fitzsimmons: “The mayor has spoken ruefully about the separation of church and state, supported charter school expansion and called for reducing the flow of migrants in rhetoric that critics have called xenophobic. He has also proposed budget cuts that could hurt key services such as libraries, arguing that all city agencies must be fiscally prudent at a time when the city’s cost of the spiraling migrant crisis is expected to be well over $1 billion — a factor that was not in play for previous mayors. … Left-leaning Democrats question whether Mr. Adams’s approach — sometimes more akin to Mr. Bloomberg or even the former Republican mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani — is appropriate for New York, one of the most liberal cities in the nation.”
| | | | DON’T MISS POLITICO’S HEALTH CARE SUMMIT: The Covid-19 pandemic helped spur innovation in health care, from the wide adoption of telemedicine, health apps and online pharmacies to mRNA vaccines. But what will the next health care innovations look like? Join POLITICO on Wednesday June 7 for our Health Care Summit to explore how tech and innovation are transforming care and the challenges ahead for access and delivery in the United States. REGISTER NOW. | | | | | | | WHAT ALBANY'S READING | | “A year after Buffalo supermarket massacre, city’s Black youth still shaken,” by The Associated Press’ Carolyn Thompson: “It’s hard for Jamari Shaw, 16, to have fun at the park with his younger brothers in their East Buffalo neighborhood. He’s too busy scanning for danger, an aftereffect of a gunman’s attack that killed 10 Black people at a local grocery store. Sometimes, 17-year-old Alanna Littleton stays in the car when her family drives to that supermarket from their home just down the street. ‘It’s such a level of tension,’ Alanna said. As the city on Sunday marks one year since the racist massacre, many young Black people in Buffalo are grappling with a shaken sense of personal security and complicated feelings about how their community was targeted. While the white supremacist got life in prison for the killings, others face a lifetime of healing.” “Orange County sues New York City over migrant program,” by Spectrum News’ Nick Reisman: “The Orange County government on Friday filed a lawsuit against New York City to halt a voluntary program moving hundreds of migrants north for the next four months. The lawsuit was coupled with legal challenges to housing migrants at a hotel in Newburgh. The town of Newburgh also sued to block the migrants from staying at the hotel.” — Suburban New York hotel is latest symbol of immigration divide, by POLITICO’s Katelyn Cordero: Three miles from the nearest supermarket on an isolated street near Stewart Airport in Newburgh, several male asylum-seekers sat out in the sun mingling with news reporters from all over the world. The calm scene Friday was periodically interrupted by drivers honking and yelling out expletives to anyone who will listen. Others from the community stopped to drop off donations. Like the country, the Hudson Valley community is divided on New York City’s decision to send three buses of male asylum-seekers to the area this week.
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“CUNY Law School Graduates Turn Their Backs to Mayor Adams,” by The New York Times’ Dana Rubinstein: “If Mayor Eric Adams needed a sign that his commencement speech to law students on Friday was not going to go well, the moment came even before he spoke. As the dean of the City University of New York School of Law, Sudha Setty, introduced the mayor at a Queens College auditorium on Friday, she noted his time spent on the police force. The crowd booed. When Mr. Adams took to the stage and began to speak, things got much worse.”
“New York City launches new migrant arrival center at Midtown hotel,” by WNYC’s Christian Santana: “Mayor Eric Adams announced on Saturday the launch of New York City's first migrant arrival center. Adams said the has already taken in more than 65,000 migrants, many of whom are also seeking asylum. With the recent expiration of Title 42, the number of arrivals is anticipated to increase dramatically. The center's launch also comes as lawsuits have stymied the mayor’s efforts to relocate migrants to suburban counties north of the city.” — “Politics, Police, Pozole: The Battle for Sunset Park,” by The New York Times’ John Leland.
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— The cost of the Excelsior App has ballooned since initial estimates to $64 million.
— New renderings show what a new soccer stadium would look like next to CitiField. — Long Island taxpayers have spent $165 million to settle police misconduct lawsuits since 2000.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: NYT’s Eli Saslow, Elisabeth Bumiller and Nick Confessore … Rachel Kelly of Mastercard … Elizabeth Poniarski … Chloe Schama … (was Sunday): ABC’s Karen Travers … NBC’s David Gelles … Sam Newton … Bloomberg’s Josh Eidelson … Howard Wolfson … Lenwood Brooks … Kiplinger’s Alexandra Svokos … Alex Katz …
… (was Saturday): NBC’s Ken Dilanian … NYT’s Mark Mazzetti … CNN’s Brian Fung … Stephen Colbert … former Rep. Chris Gibson (R-N.Y.) … Shaila Manyam of BCW Global … Lena Dunham ... Ellie Rubenstein ... Dore Lev Feith … Arjun Pai … Katie Martinez … (was Friday): Daniel Libeskind MAKING MOVES — Shadawn Smith has been named EVP of arts and culture and executive director of the Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn. She is an alum of NYC & Company, the Metropolitan Museum and the New York City Council. … Ana Unruh Cohen is joining the White House Council on Environmental Quality as senior director for clean energy, infrastructure and NEPA. She currently is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Center for Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, and is a Hill alum. … Austin Sams is joining the team of U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield as her new special assistant. He most recently was special assistant to Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.). MEDIAWATCH — Alisa Wiersema is joining CBS News as a political producer. She previously was a producer with ABC News’ political unit. WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Brian Schottenstein, president of the Schottenstein Real Estate Group and Toria Schottenstein, founder of Aronoff Social, on May 3 welcomed Juliette Regene Schottenstein, who came in at 7 lbs 8 oz. Pic ... Another pic
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“Impasse over 'good cause' eviction imperils push for more housing,” Crain’s Eddie Small: “The collapse of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s pro-growth housing agenda may have seemed like a blow to the real estate industry, which has long pushed for making it easier to build more in New York. But one landlord group celebrated the budget outcome in a message to members this month, saying their advocacy had doomed the policy they feared most of all: ‘good cause’ eviction. …
"The message captured a central dynamic of New York’s latest budget process: Although developers would have liked to see Hochul’s growth mandates pass, real estate groups focused much of their energy on opposing the measure that would cap annual rent increases and bar landlords from evicting tenants without pointing to a specific, permissible reason.” | | | | Follow us on Twitter | | | | Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook family Playbook | Playbook PM | California Playbook | Florida Playbook | Illinois Playbook | Massachusetts Playbook | New Jersey Playbook | New York Playbook | Ottawa Playbook | Brussels Playbook | London Playbook View all our political and policy newsletters | | Follow us | | | | |
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