Mayor Adams complained it’s “unfair” that the Big Apple is responsible for housing “over 99 percent” of the homeless migrants, arguing the crisis resulted in individuals sleeping outside the Roosevelt Hotel because “the dam burst.”

“I think this is a national and statewide issue that has been unjustly dropped into the lap of New York City residents. We only make up .05 of the landmass in New York State!” a frustrated Adams said during a Manhattan-based press conference Thursday.

“Yet we are housing over 99% of the migrants. That’s just unfair to New York City!”

Gov. Hochul ripped City Hall’s handling of the migrant influx through her lawyer Wednesday, claiming not only has Adams been slow to respond to the crisis, but he’s even refused to use several locations as shelters provided by the state – despite claiming the shelter system is past its “breaking point.”

The situation appeared to reach a climax earlier this month when dozens of migrants slept outside the historic Roosevelt Hotel-turned-shelter after the city told them they couldn’t provide a bed for the night.

“There was never a desire to have anyone sleep outside. The dam burst! I don’t know how to get it clearer…for a year and eight months, no one was sleeping on our streets. I stood up at this podium day after day, stating that eventually, the dam is going to burst,” Hizzoner said.

“When the damn bursts, the water flow, and that water, in this case, were human beings that had to sleep outside of the Roosevelt Hotel.”

The city is appealing the decades-old right-to-shelter mandate requiring the Big Apple to provide a temporary bed to individuals who ask, arguing the migrant crisis has placed an emergency strain on the system.

Roughly 101,200 migrants have arrived in the city since the spring of 2022, and over 58,500 are living in 201 taxpayer-funded shelters, according to the latest tally provided by City Hall.