New York City’s quarantine hotel program is no roach motel, former residents report — and the gift bags were positively luxurious.
In fact, it’s more appropriate to call the free, taxpayer-funded isolation residencies Coach motels, as many visitors received designer handbags as a parting present.
“It was very strange,” Williamsburg resident Sam Szabo told The Post of being given a Coach bag on their way home from an eight-day stay at Queens’ LaGuardia Plaza Hotel.
The 32-year-old performance artist came down with COVID-19 this past November and chose to isolate at the hotel for fear of infecting their Williamsburg house-mate.
“I was really grateful to have a
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