


Someone cleaned up nicely!
A Florida-based firm scored $20 million worth of no-bid contracts with the Big Apple to provide emergency shower trailers to migrant shelters across the five boroughs, including the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens.
City records show Imperial Restrooms Inc. recently secured two contracts — one for $18 million with the city Department of Environmental Protection and another for $2 million with the Department for Citywide Administrative Services to install “Shower Trailers for Asylum Seekers.”
The DEP contract will provide shower trailers for “up to 10 sites,” according to city records, as first reported by Gothamist.
“The cost of the shower contract sounds high. Why are we using a contract from Florida?” said city Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan), who chairs the Council’s Oversight and Investigation Committee.
She vowed to hold hearings on all the major migrant emergency contracts next month.
“This is insanity,” said Council Republican Minority Leader Joe Borelli
“I’m thinking of how many programs valued at $20 million we could fund for our constituents — science labs, fire engines, basketball courts. Why do I even bother fighting over a few hundred thousand dollars here and there in the budget process?
Phil Orenstein, a Queens Republican Party activist who confronted Mayor Adams over converting the grounds of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center into a migrant encampment, said, “We should be using the $20 million to help our veterans and the mentally ill patients served at Creedmoor.”
“It’s quite outrageous that the city is spending this much money on portable showers,” he said.
Immigration advocates and asylum seekers have long complained about the lack of shower access at multiple shelters.
The mayor’s office and Imperial Restrooms had no immediate comment.