Mike Segar/Reuters
Each weekday morning, commuters stream from Grand Central Terminal to begin another day at the center of the biggest and richest city in America.
Those exiting the east side pass by the Yale Club across the street and continue on to buildings housing billion-dollar hedge funds and big-shot law firms.
But in the past few days those who head uptown have suddenly encountered a scene that disgraces every level of government, from the mayor to the governor to the president. As many as 200 migrants are camped on scraps of cardboard outside the Roosevelt Hotel, the bright sunshine making them look all the more worn and weary from the long and off harrowing journeys that should have brought them to at least a bed and a shower.