TOBOROFF: Eric Adams doesn’t want reporters ‘to ask for details’ about his plans to fill Manhattan with illegal immigrants

Manhattan is 13.4 miles long and 2.3 miles wide. A total of 1.629 million populate the metropolis, crammed in like sardines. It’s more dense than any city in the United States. Because of limited size and appeal, Manhattan has the most expensive real estate in the city and the monopoly on the wealthiest zip codes.

The remaining four boroughs in New York City are significantly larger and home to much smaller populations per square foot. Brooklyn is 69.5 square miles and hosts 2.577 million residents; Queens is 108.1 square miles and holds 2.271 square million residents; Staten Island is 58.69 square miles and has 475,596 residents; and The Bronx is 42.47 square miles with 1.427 million residents.

Let’s put aside why illegal immigrants are allowed to enter the United States or New York City in the first place. Let’s shelve outrage over Governor Hochul and Mayor Adams supplying them with taxpayer-funded luxuries that everyday citizens can’t afford. These include $400 dollar a night luxury hotel rooms in midtown Manhattan, cellphones, clothes, transportation, such an abundance of food that a scandal broke about the waste, not to mention education, legal aid, Medicaid, and NYPD protection.

Let’s get to the heart of the issue that journalists do not ask and Adams will not address. Why, of the five boroughs, is Manhattan ground zero for Mayor Adams to stockpile illegal immigrants?

In yet another example of creating the problem and attempting to provide the solution, Mayor Adams has created a new government agency to manage the now $4.2 billion migrant crisis.  As per a New York Post article, “The Office of Asylum Seeker Operations is a new 24-7 processing center for arriving migrants and [will] move those services out of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan.”

An even better solution would be temporarily placing illegal immigrants in non-residential areas that can physically accommodate the influx, as well as the line-up of services Mayor Adams believes necessary.

To understand how Mayor Adams operates, it is important to remember he was an admirer of former Mayor de Blasio’s social justice plan to reimagine sought after zip codes under the guise of diversity. They both champion defying density realities. When de Blasio targeted iconic areas such as Soho and Nolita, longtime locals and housing advocates sparred “over the future of the sought-after, mostly white community.”

Mayor Adams’ version of equity ignores using unused land and intentionally disrupts Manhattan with immigrants and all the potential chaos they bring. A spokesperson for the mayor issued a statement to The Real Deal, saying that the city is committed to “developing affordable housing, building and modernizing our parks, libraries and schools — and doing so in a manner that ensures community engagement.”

Most of the unused city-owned property is located in Brooklyn and Queens, 1,071 and 1,143 acres respectively. Mayor Adams could alleviate the impossible to accommodate the flood of illegals by making use of this unused space. He simply doesn’t want to, positing we are a “City of Yes.”

This last sentence is important. It’s either an all-out admission that the people, as opposed to the politicians, do not want the illegal immigrants, or that no one has offered to help. Otherwise, why is he fearful the word will get out?

The people of New York City do not want illegal immigrants. Were they to be placed in any of the unused land areas outlined above, every “social justice” warrior would line up with a litany of reasons why they must be moved immediately. There would be outrage over the harm it would cause to nearby communities. However, hurting the only borough, Manhattan, which happens to be the world’s financial center, must be done so that it can be DEI’ed into a place where those remaining become Manhattan refugees.