By Daniel Greenfield, FPM 15 Sep 2023
The Roosevelt Hotel claims that it’s the place “where classic elegance meets contemporary luxury”. Classic elegance and luxury at the midtown Manhattan hotel looks like busloads of migrant invaders arriving and camping outside the golden doors. The scene is no better inside where 41 migrants have been arrested for beating wives, girlfriends and significant others.
There have also been assaults on employees and an arrest for child endangerment.
While the Roosevelt Hotel may have an old name, Mayor Eric Adams and New York City actually leased it from Pakistan for $220 million. That amounts to paying $210 per room for each night that an illegal alien invader uses it to smoke meth or abuse their wives and daughters.
The Roosevelt Hotel was named after Teddy. You can imagine what he would have done if thousands of foreigners had invaded a hotel and turned it into a drug den on his watch.
In a city where a quarter of young children live in poverty, that $220 million could probably be put to better use than paying the Islamic terror state linked to the September 11 attacks on New York City for the privilege of housing the hordes of invaders in “contemporary luxury”.
Mayor Adams has already jettisoned his promise of universal day care to care for the migrants.
Inside the Roosevelt from the gilt sign at the entrance to the art deco halls has been tarnished. Migrants squat under the massive crystal chandelier in the ballroom and sleep on the red carpet. Despite supposedly being poor and desperate, many are swiping and clicking through their smartphone apps while they wait for their next taxpayer-funded benefit to arrive.
Once the setting for movies like Wall Street and The French Connection, the storied hotel is now home to another kind of corrupt crime story. The black marble pillars and spacious rooms have been fully occupied by an endless invading army that continues to stream across the border. The smells and the level of filth are reflective of the three remaining working showers.
The massive influx of migrants has made the area near Grand Central Station as unsafe as it was in the 1970s. Despite the hotel being supposedly reserved for families, Central American and African male migrants in their twenties wearing blue surgical masks that cover most of their faces swarm the area and move in packs at night around nervous tourists and local businesses.
The fame of the Roosevelt Hotel appears to have traveled along the migrant pipeline and male migrants have fought, sometimes violently, to stay there instead of being relocated to homeless shelters. Local businesses, already battered by the pandemic, have been hit hard by the crisis.
The cost of housing the invaders is being paid to the Pakistani government. Even though
Pakistan International Airlines, under the control of the terror state’s government, was barred from flying directly to the United States after 9/11, it was allowed to take over the hotel and run it into the ground. The Biden administration has since allowed PIA to resume direct flights.
The Pakistani government harbored Osama bin Laden. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had initiated negotiations with Al Qaeda and offered to “reestablish normal relations.” Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, nicknamed ‘Taliban Khan’, had called Bin Laden a “martyr”.
Now New Yorkers are stuck paying hundreds of millions of dollars to an Islamic terror state tied to the attacks that killed so many fellow residents and citizens to provide luxury housing for the latest wave of the invaders. Osama bin Laden would be proud of what is happening here.
Beyond Pakistan, other foreign business interests are also benefiting from the foreign invasion.
Chinese developer Jubao Xie, who put up the world’s tallest Holiday Inn in Manhattan, got $190 a night, $93,000 a day and $2.8 million a month to house the invaders. The skyscraper hotel, a bafflingly ugly eyesore, was in trouble before the migrant bailout was approved by a bankruptcy judge. A number of other foreign owned hotels are also benefiting from the arrangement.
The use of high-end hotels to house the illegal invaders has not only wrecked classic storied hotels like the Roosevelt or the Paramount, but it has also ruined the surrounding areas that the Giuliani administration had struggled to drag away from the blight that had overtaken Midtown.
Where tourists are supposed to arrive by train, take in Broadway shows and go to a nice restaurant afterward, the streets swarm with migrant thieves, beggars and madmen.
Row Hotel, a classic Times Square hotel that promises “comfort and security while away from home” turned into another migrant hellhole. That’s where Daniel Hernandez Martinez, a migrant who was arrested six times for five assaults in two months, attacked a man with a bike tire.
Martinez was responsible for a one-man crime wave in the Times Square area. The criminal migrant was apparently staying in a $500 a night hotel which a former worker described as a
‘free for all’ of drugs, sex and violence where the rooms have been trashed and defiled.
Messages at the formerly stylish hotel described everything from a 10-year-old girl drunk alone in the room to an intruder carrying a machete. “Every day, we find about ten kids alone in their hotel rooms, either drinking or doing drugs. Weapons will be in the room,” a worker described.
And while America’s enemies are laughing and profiting, we are doing this to ourselves.
Open borders is only half the story. At a local level, the other half of the story is the ‘right to shelter’ regulations like those in New York City and other epicenters of the migrant invasion that guarantee everyone a room regardless of how illegal, violent or diseased they may be.
The homeless industrial complex claimed that the only reason junkies were wandering the streets was that an unfair capitalist system had deprived them of affordable housing. They invented a ‘right to shelter’ and radical leftist politicians who came to power implemented it.
A decade ago, I wrote about the rise of “homeless by choice” in which migrants, tourists and traveling junkies showed up in New York City to claim their “three meals a day, a microwave oven, TV, free laundry, free Internet, free health care and a prepaid cell phone with 300 minutes a month.”
And I warned that it would end badly. Now instead of a few thousand junkies, there are tens of thousands of migrants. And they’re just the beginning. Each of them also wants their free phones, health care, meals and everything else they think that they’re entitled to.
Including a stay in a luxury hotel.
Back then, one in four homeless in New York listed addresses outside the city. Today it’s probably the vast majority. There’s no longer even the pretense of a homeless problem.
New York City’s homeless problem just consists of people from other countries showing up in the city and demanding a room at the Roosevelt, the Row or the Paramount. Why be a sucker and pay $300 bucks for a hotel when you can just arrive as a refugee and demand a free room.
The taxpayers will pay for it and hand over the cash to Pakistan to finance more terrorism.
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Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center’s Front Page Magazine.<
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Adams resume: Mayor, NY State Assemblyman, Brooklyn Borough President, Police Captain, founder of 100 men in law enforcement, civil rights organization, small landlord in Brooklyn who gave a break to his tenants during Covid.
Sliwa: Talk show host, founder Guardian Angels.
Cuomo: “AI Overview
Andrew Cuomo’s career includes roles in law, government, and public service. He worked as a campaign manager for his father’s gubernatorial campaign, practiced law, chaired the New York City Homeless Commission, and served in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Clinton, including as Secretary. ”
Walden: “James Walden (born January 19, 1966) is an American attorney.[2][3] After serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1993 to 2002, Walden entered private practice, where he has been a defense attorney for corporations in cases involving white-collar crime, antitrust violations, and market manipulation.” Wikipedia
Mamdani: NY State Assemblyman, BDS activist, Working Families Party organizer, rapper, film maker.
Sergeant Schultz, “Hogan’s Heros” (1965-71) : “I know nothing, nothing!” 4 seconds long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HblPucwN-m0&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD
All of Adams’ opponents are inexperienced kibbitzers who don’t understand what the Mayor has control over and what he doesn’t. They want to “learn to shave on our beard,” as the saying goes. “The devil is in the details”, as another one goes.
So where should he have put them? And how should he have paid for them? Especially given time constraints in an emergency.
https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-blames-migrant-crisis-democratic-criticism-for-indictment-new-york-city-federal-corruption-probe-illegal-immigration-biden-harris-administration-unsealed-indictment
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Ever wonder why Adams is the only mayoral candidate to be refused campaign finance funding by the NYC Campaign Finance Board? Why is he the only one so relentlessly targeted for alleged crimes dismissed by the Justice Dept. under Trump?
Correction: “Cuomo Penalized $622K in Campaign Funds for ‘Improper Coordination’ with Outside Spending Group”
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/05/12/cuomo-campaign-matching-funds/
Mamdani was not penalized at all.
Jim Walden, the third, but irrelevant pro-Israel candidate also got.
Adams was denied any funding. Twice!
Adams, the only candidate with zero antisemitic baggage in his history, other than Walden, who is a political newcomer with no real program, polling at 1 percent, was then tarred as a Holocaust denier for saying the lawfare charges against him were like the Nazi Big Lie tactic. Which is no lie.