TOWN OF NEWBURGH – Orange County has filed two lawsuits against the City of New York and the Town of Newburgh filed a third seeking to have State Supreme Court disallow New York City from housing migrants sent to the Big Apple in local hotels.
One lawsuit seeks to have a temporary restraining order to hold off on the housing of the immigrants while the county seeks a permanent prohibition.
New York City bused up some 50 men to the Crossroads Hotel on Lakeside Road in the Town of Newburgh on Thursday.
A second suit claims New York wants to send the initial busloads of men to Crossroads Hotel and as many as 600 others to the Ramada Inn on Route 300 in the Town of Newburgh and that decision was made unilaterally without consulting the county about the long-term reclassification of the hotels.
“Unlike Rockland County, who had a hotel that wasn’t in compliance with existing permitting requirements, the hotels in Orange County had valid permits to exist as short-term rentals. Accordingly, the time to sue could not effectively start until the individuals Mayor Eric Adams sent here arrived and these permitted short term rental units were converted into long-term rentals, which is not legal,” said Orange County Attorney Rick Golden.
“New York City is a self-proclaimed sanctuary city and needs to fix this issue Orange County and its residents now face, which was created by the mayor and the federal government’s failed immigration policies,” said Neuhaus.
The Town of Newburgh has also filed a lawsuit alleging New York City did not consult with the town and is in violation of the town code and certificates of occupancy by converting the hotel(s) into long-term homeless facilities.
