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Albany County plans to convert a vacant South Pearl Street McDonald’s into a centralized bus terminal near MVP Arena, adding parking and 24/7 sheriff security to serve Greyhound, Adirondack Trailways and Peter Pan and revitalize downtown Albany.
Capital Region officials in Albany County criticized Mayor Eric Adams for bussing in around five dozen migrant asylum seekers into their communities with little notice over the weekend. Adams has attracted similar criticism in recent weeks from other upstate officials after sending migrants to their communities while arguing the Big Apple needs help handling the waves of asylum seekers arriving from the U.S. Southern Border. Roughly 40,000 migrants currently depend on the Big Apple for housing, food, and other basic necessities out of 70,000 that have arrived since last summer.