Jun 19, 2024 · 417K views · 📍 New York City, NY · Manhattan, NY · Randall's Island, NY · Times Square, NY · The Bronx, NY · Queens, NY · Wall Street, NY · Brooklyn, NY · Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, NY · Madison Square Garden, NY
Nick Shirley tours New York City to identify what he calls secret migrant shelters spread across the five boroughs, filming outside hotels, tent cities, and converted buildings and interviewing residents and migrants. He alleges the city pays premium rates to formerly struggling hotels and estimates massive taxpayer spending on housing over 200,000 migrants.
Programs involved: NYC migrant shelter program
Figures below are claims made in the video, shown with the status stated there — this site does not verify them. Disclaimer
Estimated amount NYC will have spent caring for illegal immigrants by next year
“New York City will have spent 10 billion doll taking care of all these illegal immigrants”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Estimated annual revenue the congestion pricing plan would raise
“the amount of money that this new congestion plan is going to raise...more than $1 billion”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Alleged profit a single Bronx hotel could make from the shelter program
“an extra $10.5 million in pure profit from the Bronx”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Rate the city allegedly pays hotels per room to house migrants
“the city is paying a premium of up to $300 per room”
Stated by Nick Shirley
Proposed congestion pricing charge to enter Manhattan
“charging people $15 every single time they come in to the city of Manhattan”
Stated by Nick Shirley
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All figures are as stated in the video — most are allegations, not adjudicated findings. Every dollar figure links to the timestamp where it is said. Extraction QA: All five monetary claims are accurately quoted and correctly attributed to Nick Shirley, matching the transcript verbatim. Entities are correctly identified with reasonable ASR reconstructions flagged (Brooker T Jones, Stratford Arms, Floyd Bennett Field, AOC). No hallucinated figures or entities detected.