New York City hotel plan for asylum-seekers clocks in at $93,500 a day

So the only way to go is up? Yes, both in height and price. Migrants continue to arrive in the Big Apple, prompting New York City Mayor Eric Adams to make a command decision. He vows to convert the 50-story Holiday Inn Manhattan hotel into a large-scale shelter for new arrivals. It has 492 rooms that are now intended for families and single women, according to the mayor’s office.