Migrants are removed from the sidewalk in front of a $450-a-night Manhattan hotel in a late-night standoff

Attempts by a roused activist to force a posh midtown Manhattan hotel to house hordes of immigrants failed overnight when the frenzied scene was cleared.

An influx of immigrants that filled the sidewalk in front of the Watson Hotel after they were evicted by the city finally moved in after a tense standoff between police and left-wing agitators.

Despite some immigrants initially boarded a bus that would have taken them to a new shelter in Brooklyn last nightinstead, many have tried to remain outside as protesters continue to demand they be housed.

The gridlock outside the hotel was worsening as a severe cold snap would send temperatures in New York City plummeting, but successful efforts to clear the site have left only a small faction of police and the media.

DailyMail.com is on the scene as the city’s disorderly attempts to resolve the crisis have seen New Yorkers forced to carry pepper spray when ‘rioter’ immigrants took over the area earlier this week.

The cleanup began Wednesday night when 10 immigrants boarded a bus that took them from the $450-a-night hotel to the Brooklyn facility.

As a bus arrived, DailyMail.com heard a migrant yell: “Whoever wants to leave, let them go.” Whoever wants to stay, stay.

‘We’re not going to sleep in those fucking beds.’

The new facility has been quickly installed by Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City, as he turned a cruise terminal in Brooklyn’s Red Hook district into a shelter with capacity for 1,000 people.

Despite repeated attempts to move the group, some 25 to 35 migrants tried to remain defiant, backed by leftist activists who demanded they be housed and fed at the expensive hotel.

But his rally alongside the immigrants proved futile as the scene cleared Thursday morning, and the mayor’s new facility now houses and feeds the influx.

The City Council blamed activists from groups like South Bronx Mutual Aid for fueling the standoff, and the mayor’s press secretary, Fabien Levy, said before the cleanup: “I don’t even understand the logic here.

“Instead of encouraging asylum seekers to sleep in warm, indoor, temperature-controlled rooms at the Brooklyn cruise terminal, these groups are telling immigrants to sleep in tents on the streets.

‘The lack of reasoning here is staggering.’

Adams, who has been oscillating between begging the federal government for help in dealing with the flood of immigrants and boasting that his city is welcoming, paid an in-person visit to the new Brooklyn site on Monday.

“Since last summer, New York City has opened five Humanitarian Emergency Relief and Response Centers and more than 80 emergency shelters to assist the more than 43,000 incoming asylum seekers,” his office tweeted.

“We have offered them shelter, food, legal assistance and other resources while we wait for national support.”

As the protests continued earlier this week, the stalemate turned hostile as activists held up umbrellas to block cameras as insults were hurled at reporters.

A reporter, filming for Dubai-based Al Arabiya TV, had his camera smashed by a migrant.

While police warned migrants to take action, no arrests have yet been made.

Despite being offered food and shelter in the new facility, many refused the move until cleared by city officials.

After being evicted from their rooms at the Watson Hotel over the weekend, hordes of activists blocked the sidewalk as migrants camped out around them for days.

Efforts by New York authorities to move immigrants during the week included desperate pleas from evangelical pastor Rev. Erick Salgado, who serves as an assistant commissioner in the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.

He addressed the crowd of migrants in Spanish last night, assuring them that their new shelter would be an improvement on the sidewalk outside the hotel.

“We are looking to transfer the majority of asylum seekers to the HERRC in Brooklyn,” he said, referring to the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center (HERRC).

‘We all know it’s going to be very cold and windy and we want to make sure they have the resources they need this winter.

‘Yesterday we went there to the Brooklyn facility with many of them.

‘Most of them want to leave and stay in Brooklyn, they have transportation. We have buses. And many of the local churches that I set up there also to help them.’

As the situation worsened and the immigrant group appeared to become more entrenched, New York residents raised concerns about the city’s handling of the influx of late.

After the camp emerged seemingly overnight outside the Watson Hotel following their eviction, the travelers expressed fears about their own safety in the city.

A single mother told DailyMail.com she was forced to carry pepper spray to try to get over the frenzy on the way home.

Erika Quintero, who lives across the street from the tent-laden encampment on West 57th Street, told DailyMail.com the migrants have already been “disruptive” in the few hours since they set up the camp.

“Last night there was a lot of noise,” said Quintero, who lives alone with her 9-year-old son in the residential building.

“Loud music, people screaming,” he said. ‘My son was trying to take a zoom class. It’s very scary.