Mayor Eric Adams visited just three homeless shelters despite pledging to make unannounced inspections at facilities in the scandal-scarred system, The Post has learned.
And only one of those surprise drop-ins is on the books, as is mandated by the state, records show. of the filthy, dangerous conditions at city-run or funded shelters, Adams vowed a crackdown on March 10 and then later claimed to have visited five facilities, one in each borough.An Adams spokesman insisted that two unexpected visits — which were not documented in records obtained by The Post — came on the same day in March in the Bronx.
Adams made the promise after a Post exposé on the conditions in several city shelters including the Bedford-Atlantic Armory Men’s Shelter in Brooklyn.None of the three visits were at any of the infamous facilities highlighted by The Post — which triggered Adams’ initial promise of spot inspections. Adams spoke out against conditions in the shelters and “people sleeping on the side of the roads” in March.Advocates for the city’s indigent assailed Adams for not delivering on his promise, which the mayor made in response to widespread criticisms of his orders to conduct“If Mayor Adams was really visiting shelters frequently, he would see why so many homeless New Yorkers instead sleep on the streets or in the subways,” said Jacquelyn Simone, a top official at the Coalition for the Homeless.