Name: Press Conference at Orchard Beach Temporary Migrant Housing - Bronx, NYC
Uploaded: 2022-10-04T03:32:25+00:00
Duration: 1 h 5 min 25 s
Description: UPDATE: Mayor Adams announced on the night of October 3 that the tent housing would be relocated to Randall's Island. You can read his statement here: https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/718

3 years ago

UPDATE: Mayor Adams announced on the night of October 3 that the tent housing would be relocated to Randall's Island. You can read his statement here: https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/718-22/mayor-adams-on-city-s-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-center-asylum

On October 3, 2022, New York State Assembly candidate John Greaney held a press conference in the parking lot of Orchard Beach in the Bronx, where numerous community leaders and political candidates spoke about the construction of tent housing for migrants being constructed there.

48:30: U.S. House candidate and AOC opponent Tina Forte sings "We're Not Gonna Take It" with supporters

58:40: See the tent housing under construction.

See Mayor Adams's announcement of the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers:
https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/695-22/mayor-adams-humanitarian-emergency-response-relief-centers-further-support-asylum