eee i scot. @ Sccs- Be se. = DAILY8NEWS 2 =o NEW YORK POLITICS 40 migrants from NYC arrive in Albany; upstate officials battle busing program in courts ‘Aus carrying about 40 asylum seckers from New York City arrived in Albany on Sunday evening, the mayor ofthe capital city said Monday. ‘The trip appeared more orderly than New York City’s attempted migrant transports to other upstate municipalities, which have brought fierce resistance and court challenges. Albany's mayor, Kathy Sheehan, said her city weleomed the arrivals. But she seemed to quibble with the Adams administration's hotel selection forthe migrants. ‘While we suggested several other hotels within the City of Albany, New York City has decided to contract with the Ramada Inn on Watervliet Avenue in Albany,” Sheehan, a Democrat, said in a statement, ‘She pledged that Albany’s community partners would "work to ensure New York City provides these asylum seckers with food, shelter, everyday necessities, and the services "ATEST they may need” NeW vORK Queens mom still searching for clues three ‘The Ramada, a low-cost three-star hotel, is located in Albany's West End. eon neihborhod, nest to tnterstate 90 and about thre mie from doyntown, Scenes mare: Sie me econ Annage ot th bol i ntnmmecelyregpnd io wren forcomomnt Monday. Shechans chef sta, David Gali, si Albany officals were concer aboutthe Cores Nowak Djohovie not ? ‘volume of 911 calls that the hotel draws, noting that the asylum seekers are nn a cr ere neck a coming fom a ely traumatic experience” oe ‘making Slam debuts “We're excited to weleome them in the city,” Gali said by phone, adding ofthe hotel 2 selection: "It is what i.” BASKETBALL “Teers to hire Nick Nurse as next head coach: reports, political upheaval in Central and South America, a For a year, New York City has been strained by waves of migration unleashed by ‘The city, which has struggled to handle the influs, has weleomed more than 70,000 ‘migrants since last spring, aceording to the Adams administration. More than 45,000 remained in the city's care as of last week, said Fabien Levy, a spokesman for Mayor Adams. “Every day, we receive hundreds of additional asylum seckers and we are out of space,” Levy said in a statement. “New York City has done and will continue to do its part, but wwe need counties, cities, and towns across the state todo their part as well.” “In most areas, we're not even asking localities to help manage one-quarter of 1% of, the asylum seekers that have arrived in New York City,” he added, Responding to the migrant influx, New York City has opened more than 150 shelter sites and helped the asylum seekers travel to far-off locations, including Canada, ‘This month, the city sparked outrage among parents by placing migrants, briefly, in a school gym in Coney Island, Brooklyn. nits bids to bus asylum seekers north ofthe five boroughs, the city has promised to cover food and shelter 6 but has till met with staunch resistance from upotate officials [Rockland County hotel barred from housing migrants at least until June} ‘The Hudson Valley counties of Rockland and Orange filed lawsuits earlier this month to prevent the city from sending migrants to their communities. On Saturday night, 24 migrants from New York City arrived at a SureStay Plus Hotel by Best Western outside Albany, in the town of Colonie, said Town Supervisor Peter Crummey. Colonie sued New York City in Albany Supreme Court over the weekend to halt the city from transporting any more migrants. In cout papers, Colonie said it had been unable to coordinate “services that individuals may require, the assistance they may need and the potential emergency responses that the Town will have to bear.” Crummey also laced into Adams ina separate statement, saying that the SureStay Plus Hotel has been a “hot bed of police activity,” and charging that the New York City ‘mayor “pays no heed for the welfare ofthe persons subject to his forced bussing catastrophe.” Colonie’s lawsuit apparently worked, a least for now. Crummey said in an email, ‘Monday that Justice Gerald Connolly of New York State Supreme Court had issued an order a day earlier barring any more transports to Colonie until a court hearing June 9 ‘With Chris Sommerfeldt and Cayla Bamberger TheMeringCaotra. rorscouom Manage suosorber serves famset see Calton Nee onsets My Nocera ‘aot © 2, New Yolen