Dec 9, 2024
NYC’s Roosevelt Hotel has become a hotbed for Tren de Aragua gang activity, where children as young as 11-years-old are recruited
Purchased by the Pakistani government in 2000, it now leases the hotel to the City of New York for $220 million for use as a migrant processing center
Owners were planning on closing the hotel permanently, but were forced to re-open after its union demanded $66 million
Following a quote tweet from incoming Department of Government Efficiency co-czar Vivek Ramaswamy, New York City’s Roosevelt Hotel has returned to the spotlight in the discourse around immigration, state capacity, and NYC local politics. “A taxpayer-funded hotel for illegal migrants is owned by the Pakistani government which means NYC taxpayers are effectively paying a foreign government to house illegals in our own country. This is nuts,” Ramaswamy said.
mehdi hassan claims 'muslims built america' and frames the transatlantic slave trade as uniquely bad, ignoring the fact that arab slaveholders have existed for millennia and still do
the 'overpaid ceo act' jacks up gross receipts tax on the biggest sf businesses. we tried this during the pandemic and it forced them to leave, triggering a doom loop. get ready for part two?
a brief history of organized shoplifting rings, housing deadlocks, and other fun consequences of the state's 'direct democracy' experiment