The real reason is that he doesn’t like Puerto Ricans. For anyone who’s lived in the past in the city, would know that they were considered as the other “blacks”, tne Spanish Harlem being the east part and/or on the east side of Harlem.
Deep in the heart of the dotard, discrimination is the main reason he’s not taken his ass over there. Anyone who lived in NY in the 70s and 80s knows that. And he did.