A former worker at New York’s Row Hotel has come forward to reveal the disgusting conditions migrants newly arrived in Manhattan are keeping their hotel rooms, which the city is footing the bill for.
Carlos Arellano, who no longer works for the once luxury hotel, has described the premises as a ‘free for all’ of drugs, sex and violence and should be shut down.
Almost all of the 1,300 rooms set across 28 floors of the hotel have been turned over to host migrants, with the city paying $500-a-night for the migrants to be housed.
Video and photographs shot by Arellano show rooms that have become completely trashed, full of garbage, with clothes strewn everywhere together with drink bottles and food boxes lining the floors.
Carlos Arellano, left, who no longer works for the once luxury hotel, has described the premises as a ‘free for all’ as drugs, sex and violence
The worker revealed the disgusting conditions migrants newly arrived in the city are keeping their hotel rooms, which the city is footing the bill for
Video and photographs shot by Arellano show rooms that have become completely trashed, full of garbage, with clothes strewn everywhere
Drink bottles and food boxes line the floors having been tossed about by the migrants
Arellano no longer works at the hotel but says it was an uncomfortable experience to work there
Many of the migrants who are being put up at the hotel also congregate outside on the sidewalk making it extremely uncomfortable for locals and vacationers who are often in the area to see Broadway shows or to visit nearby Times Square.
The hotel is no longer open to regular guests and is solely for migrants who have trekked over the southern border and are awaiting immigration hearings.
Some of the migrants have been accused of drinking all day, smoking marijuana, having sex in stairwells and causing fights, hotel employees have claimed.
In one instance, Arellano claims to have found a ten-year-old girl who had been left drunk in her hotel room with her parents nowhere to be found.
‘Every day, we find about ten kids alone in their hotel rooms, either drinking or doing drugs. Weapons will be in the room. But we’re not allowed to go in there. We’re not allowed to take anything from them. It’s basically a free-for-all,’ he told Fox News.
Arellano also said that he had witnessed violence in the street and a number of incidents involving staff.
‘Just a lot of people who are very there, they don’t appreciate what they have. And they come here with the mindset of the way they live back at their home country, and they think there’s no rules or no laws to be followed here,’ Arellano said.
Migrants who arrived in New York City from the border have been housed temporarily in this luxury Manhattan hotel – The Row close to the tourist hotspot of Times Square
The migrants appear to have trashed their rooms leaving stains on the carpet together with drink cans and bottles everywhere
Arellano alleges many of the migrants stay in their rooms and just get drunk all day long
One text message sees concern over a young child that was drunk and had been abandoned
In another instance an intruder was carrying a knife/machete having entered the building
He also noted how there was little to no consequences for those involved in antisocial behavior with the common solution simply to move them to another migrant hotel somewhere in the city.
‘If they are kicked out of the hotel, they get sent to a processing center at Port Authority where they get given a second hotel So, say a husband decides to beat his wife up. He will get kicked out, and they will just process him into a single men’s hotel. So if you break the law, it’s not “We’re going to report it to the proper authorities.” It’s “Let’s give you a second or third hotel room, and you still stay in the city.”‘
Even when culprits are singled out for bad behavior, there is often no way to verify their true identity.
‘We find fake passports, fake Social Security cards, all kinds of fake documents in this hotel every day,’ Arellano told Fox.
‘This place deserves to be shut down. [Workers] fear for their life every day, as well as I do,’ he said.
A luxury hotel in the heart of New York City is being ‘trashed’ by migrants – who have been accused of drinking all day, smoking marijuana, having sex in stairwells and causing fights, employee Filipe Rodriguez. He has shared photos of trashed and filthy hotel rooms
Rodriguez said: ‘The form in which they keep their rooms is horrendous. They don’t clean it, they don’t fold their clothes. They’re hoarding clothes, they’re hoarding whatever they can hoard.’
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Some of the images shared included ‘good food’ sitting out to rot in trash bags because ‘the migrants don’t want to eat it’. ‘The chaos that we see at the Row today is [caused] by migrants being drunk, drinking all day, smoking marijuana [and] consuming drugs,’ Rodriguez said.
DailyMail.com previously reported on what was going on a The Row in January but it seems conditions have worsened since then.
Another hotel employee Filipe Rodriguez has called the situation a ‘disgrace’ and shared videos and photos of the chaos, which included ‘good food’ sitting out to rot in trash bags because ‘the migrants don’t want to eat it.’
‘The chaos that we see at the Row today is [caused] by migrants being drunk, drinking all day, smoking marijuana [and] consuming drugs,’ Rodriguez told Fox News.
Alcohol is prohibited in all migrant shelters but the employees say they often find empty beer and liquor bottles in the rooms and hallways.
‘The form in which they keep their rooms is horrendous. They don’t clean it, they don’t fold their clothes. They’re hoarding clothes, they’re hoarding whatever they can hoard,’ he said.
‘There was a lot of stuff that I had to be responsible for. Fortunately for the migrants, they got the government of the United States to hand them carte blanche to pretty much do as they wish. They go in and out of the hotel at will,’ he said.
Rodriguez added that thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded food is being wasted with migrants throwing it out because they insist on cooking in their rooms on hotplates, which is also a danger to themselves and others staying at the hotel.
‘They said they don’t like it,’ he said about the migrants and hotel food. ‘This is all food that is going to waste. This is insane.’
Rodriguez also pointed out that there has also been several of ‘domestic violence’ incidents among migrants, with one even fighting a security guard at the hotel. On top of that, some young people have been ‘having sex in the stairs’.
Rodriguez shared another photo of a hotel room strewn with clutter and trash
Rodriguez showed bags of fresh food being thrown away because the migrants don’t want it
Rodriguez added that thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded food is being wasted with migrants throwing it out because they insist on cooking in their rooms on hotplates
In better times, The Row on 8th Avenue between 44th and 45th streets was a four star hotel in the heart of Manhattan’s Broadway Theater District boasting classic NYC views, a full fitness studio, a communal workspace equipped with Apple’s $2,000 iMac desktops and a lounge where ‘hand-stretched’ pizzas are $20.
Its bar menu boasts cocktails costing up to $19 each. A glass of champagne is $22. Room prices vary depending on the size – but the executive suite is $719 a night.
But now New York City is using the hotel to exclusively to house migrants, some of whom are seeking asylum.
The city is using the hotel staff at The Row to work there, but the city has yet to disclose how much taxpayer money is being used to house migrants.
Nearly 61,000 migrants have flooded into New York City in the last few months and have been housed at just 14 hotels.
Most of the migrants have been arriving on buses from border states, including Texas, as a result of President Joe Biden’s border crisis.
People gathered outside the Row Hotel on Eight Avenue where reports of debauchery and wasted food meant for sheltered migrants who temporarily reside at the hotel surfaced following a whistleblower
Two migrant children play with toys outside of The Row Hotel, seen earlier this year
The trendy hotel began housing migrants last summer as thousands arrived from Texas
Visitors to The Row have access to a fully-equipped fitness center (pictured)
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