Mayor Eric Adams urged President Biden on Wednesday to swing by The Roosevelt Hotel migrant shelter before ending his trip this week to New York City — to see just how much the asylum seeker crisis is ravaging the Big Apple.
Hizzoner made the pitstop suggestion after Biden snubbed him during his three-day visit to Gotham for the UN General Assembly — even as the migrant crisis continues to cripple the city.
“I believe the president is still here. I think there’s still an opportunity for him to look at the Roosevelt Hotel — like the Hispanic Congressional Delegation did several days ago,” Adams told NY1 Wednesday morning.
“They walked away with what I believe is a new admiration of what [the Adams] administration has done,” he added, referring to the delegation’s visit last Friday that was marred by protests.
Adams offered up the advice after being asked if he believed Biden — who is scheduled to leave NYC late Wednesday — had snubbed him by not scheduling a sit-down, or visiting the city’s overrun migrant intake site at the once-iconic Roosevelt, while in town.
Instead, Biden spent his Big Apple trip attending campaign receptions and meetings at the United Nations Headquarters in Midtown Manhattan – just four blocks away from the mega shelter.
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The president’s schedule for Wednesday had him meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva before he was due to head back to the White House.
Biden’s snub was yet a further sign of a deepening rift between him and the mayor — who once dubbed himself the “Biden of Brooklyn” — amid an humanitarian crisis that has seen more than 113,000 migrants pour into the city since the spring of 2022.
But the mayor, who has repeatedly begged the prez for additional federal help and warned the crisis will “destroy” the city, suggested it wasn’t him who had avoided a face-to-face meeting with him.
“I’m a New Yorker: we do not run away from things, we move towards them,” the mayor said in a separate interview with PIX11, signaling it may have been his tough talk that deterred Biden.
“Listen, you know my authentic style of communicating. I walk around with that New York communication style, and you know, I don’t search through a thesaurus to find a politically correct way of saying ‘you are hurting me, you’re hurting my city’ if that’s what someone is doing.”
Adams has stepped up his attacks on Biden of late — demanding the federal government cough up additional aide, expedited work visas and help set up shelter sites to cope with the relentless influx of migrants pouring in.
