Friday, October 18, 2024

Charli XCX's concert in a town north of New York led to mistaken fears of a migrant invasion

New York Magazine's consistently excellent Dinner Party newsletter this week

Most attendees, being city-based club kids, would take the train to Beacon, where buses would take them over to the art park.

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These buses, some locals decided, and then expressed promptly on Facebook, were proof that migrants were being dumped from New York City and housed, improbably, at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson.