The massive Roosevelt Hotel Migrant Shelter in Manhattan will be closed in the coming months, Mayor of New York City Eric Adams Announced on Monday.
The converted facility, which has around 1,000 rooms, has more than processed 173,000 migrants Since the opening in May 2023, according to the New York Post.
“Although we are not yet ready for those who took care of us, today marks another milestone when demonstrating the enormous progress we made when the corner is running to make the unprecedented international humanitarian effort on Monday.
Allegedly he added that the closure – which told a source post It is expected that it will take place by June – is “the successful strategies that we have introduced here in New York City and because of the policy we argued for at the border.”
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Migrants and asylum seekers arrive in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City in January 2024. (J. Conrad Williams, Jr./newsday RM via Getty Images)
New York City had around 69,000 migrants in its collection system in January 2024, but that number has currently fallen to less than 45,000, city officials told the mail.
At one point 4,000 migrants came on the Big Apple every week, but that number also fell to an average of 350, the newspaper added, stating Adams.
During the last few weeks of the presidency of Joe Biden, around 400-500 new migrants asked for Stadshulp every week, the position also reported.
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Migrants sleep outside the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City in July 2023, because the facility was on capacity. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The Adams office did not respond immediately to a request for comments from Fox News Digital on Monday morning.
The expected closure of the Roosevelt Hotel Shelter – which is reportedly also linked to gang -activity – comes when New York City has closed other sites for migrant care.
“We are looking for more sites to consolidate and close, and more opportunities to save tax money, because we continue to manage this answer successfully,” Adams said in December when he announced that 25 hiding places will close in the coming months.
Tape of the crime scene surrounds the area of ​​a stabbing for the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City in May 2024. (Peter Gerber)
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Migrants arriving after the closure of Roosevelt Hotel Shelter will have other locations in New York City to register, city officials told the mail.
Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
