Riding around on a bicycle ratting out delivery drivers who leave their engine running can provide a nice living in moonbat-ruled New York City, but the big money is elsewhere:

The Adams administration has inked a nearly $1 billion contract with the hotel industry for emergency shelter space…

Taxpayers are on the hook for the $929.1 million reupped with the Hotel Association of New York City Foundation as the total city population still includes a whopping 86,000 people, including homeless individuals and asylum seekers.

“Asylum seekers” are better known as “illegal immigrants” or more accurately, “foreign invaders.”

Meanwhile, as hordes of moochers luxuriate in hotels at public expense, tourists avoid New York not only because liberalism has reduced it to a cesspool but because hotel rooms are prohibitively expensive due to scarcity.

Fortunately, NYC doesn’t need money from tourists. It can seize as much as it wants from the taxpayers who have not yet fled.

Or maybe it will manage to bleed taxpayers dry:

The overall cost to house migrants per night is $352 — including $130 to hotels for the room rental, city officials said last year.

Too bad NYC can’t print money to finance open borders like the Biden Regime was doing.

On a tip from Wiggins.