Cuomo blasts Biden, Hochul for not doing enough on NYC migrant crisis: ‘Mayor Adams is right’
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday bashed the Biden and Hochul administrations over the migrant crisis, saying both left the beleaguered city to fend for itself.
Cuomo, speaking at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, added that the plan to house up to at least 2,000 migrants at Floyd Bennett Field “defies common sense.
“Floyd Bennet Field is an old airstrip,” the 65-year-old disgraced ex-New York gov told the audience at the church. “It’s a flood plain. It’s a transportation desert. It will effectively isolate thousands of migrants who need our help and deserve our help.
“And it’s going to cost taxpayers millions of dollars,” he said.
Cuomo — who fell short of calling out President Biden and Gov. Kathy Hochul by name but made it clear he was targeting his fellow Dems — added that New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been left to grapple with the more than 130,000 migrants who have flooded the five boroughs since spring 2022.
“We have a migrant issue,” Cuomo said. “Now it’s a hot political potato, so the federal government and the state government want to have nothing to do with it, and they left it to New York City.
“But how can New York City handle 130,000 migrants?” he said. “Mayor Adams is right — the city can’t bear the burden alone.”
Cuomo, who was forced to resign from office in 2021 over wide-ranging allegations of sexual harassment, also ran through a litany of other ills facing the city, state and nation — from rampant antisemitism and the homeless crisis to the political dysfunction crippling the nation’s capital.
He finished his 8-minute speech with a call to arms.
“Now it is time for people of goodwill and common sense to speak up and get involved,” he said. “Remember, most politicians are like weather vanes — they point wherever the political wind blows. And now the extremist forces are blowing us off course.
“My friends, what’s going on today matters,” Cuomo added. “Now is the time for your voice as a citizen, as a congregant, as a member of the community to speak up and to speak out loud and proud for the future of the city of New York.”
The White House and Hochul’s office did not respond to requests for comment from The Post on Sunday.
