City leaders should be deeply ashamed after the death of FDNY veteran Derek Floyd.
On April 15, the 36-year-old father of two young children died of a heart attack just a few months after being fired as part of the Adams administration’s cuts to city services to balance the budget while spending millions on housing and feeding illegal migrants.
Floyd, a Marine vet who served three tours in the Middle East, was on modified duty after a previous heart attack in 2019 when he was cut just before Christmas last year.
Rubbing salt in the wound, he was let go just before qualifying for $600,000 in FDNY death benefits that would have given his family a safety net; now his grieving widow is drowning in debt while trying to care for their son, age 6, and daughter, 2.
It’s a devastating but poignant example of an everyday New Yorker being thrown under the bus while the city continues to roll out the red carpet for migrants.
And it’s only getting worse: City taxpayers will spend $3.4 billion on migrants next fiscal year, up from $2.3 billion this year.
Rather than turn off the gravy train, New York City will keep on providing free housing, education, medical care and food — incentivizing more migrants to come.
New Yorkers are giving up their town bit by bit: Turns out the city quietly converted Hotel Le Jolie in Williamsburg into emergency housing for migrants several months ago, one more hotel that can no longer serve tourists or employ locals.
How many more normal folks like Floyd must suffer before city government wakes up?
After a life of selfless service to his country and then New Yorkers, Floyd was abandoned by the city.
Our leaders have said loud and clear that migrants come first — and New Yorkers get the scraps.
It has to stop.