ALBANY — The office of New York City Mayor Eric Adams has agreed to coordinate with Albany County as it continues to resettle migrants.
The agreement came Wednesday after a conversation between County Executive Dan McCoy and Adams’ administration and as a fourth bus carrying asylum-seekers is headed Wednesday evening to the Capital Region.
“After initial challenges with communication, I am happy to report that we have an agreement for better communication and coordination with New York City as asylum-seekers are relocated,” McCoy said in a statement.
The news was first reported by Spectrum News’ Capital Tonight.
McCoy had repeatedly expressed frustration that New York City was not communicating and coordinating its decisions with the county on sending migrants to the Capital Region.
“We were supposed to have a meeting and they, said ‘No, we’re not talking and you’re getting two busloads.’ That’s not the way to operate,” he said Tuesday.
Last week, McCoy’s office was caught off guard when Mayor Kathy Sheehan received a call Thursday afternoon from New York City informing her that the first bus carrying asylum-seekers was on its way. That bus arrived Saturday night at the SureStay Plus Hotel by Best Western on Wolf Road in Colonie, with two subsequent buses bringing migrants to the Ramada Plaza by Wyndham Albany on Washington Avenue Extension in Albany.
A fourth bus is expected to bring about 40 more migrants to the city Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. The migrants are expected to stay at the Ramada and at the Holiday Inn Express downtown.
Fabien Levy, Adams’ press secretary, reiterated Wednesday that the city was facing a humanitarian crisis. He did not address questions on how many asylum-seekers New York City intends to send to Albany or if there were plans to place them in other Capital Region cities.
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