In a late Tuesday night email, the administration of New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, asked a New York supreme court justice to allow it to ignore the state’s longstanding “right to shelter” law in certain circumstances.
The request comes after weeks of mounting debate about the city’s obligation to serve 100,000 migrants bussed in from the southern border. Earlier this summer, the city struggled to find housing for migrants at an intake center in Midtown Manhattan, with some sleeping on cardboard boxes outside.
