Rockland County and New York City will be back in court later this month. The county is challenging the city’s lack of authority to set up a homeless shelter in Rockland, and the city wants the county’s Temporary Restraining Order lifted. Orangetown Supervisor Teresa Kenny says the city’s plan to put a shelter in an Orangeburg hotel was the entirely wrong approach…
The two sides will be in court May 30th. Meanwhile, 94th District Assemblyman, Republican Matt Slater, covering northern Westchester and parts of Putnam Counties, said at a press conference earlier this week that the chaotic migrant situation is a wake-up call for the city and the state…
Elsewhere, News 12 reported 80 or so migrants from the city were brought to the Knights Inn in Sullivan County yesterday. That’s the same motel at which a toddler died earlier this month, allegedly due to a fentanyl overdose. In Orange County, published reports say an earlier claim that veterans were displaced to accommodate migrants at the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh is being disputed.