The huge Roosevelt Lodge migrant shelter in Manhattan will shut down within the subsequent few months, New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams introduced Monday.
The transformed facility, which has round 1,000 rooms, has processed greater than 173,000 migrants since its opening in Might 2023, based on the New York Publish.
“Whereas we’re not carried out caring for those who got here into our care, right now marks one other milestone in demonstrating the immense progress we have now achieved in turning the nook on the unprecedented worldwide humanitarian effort,” Adams was quoted by the newspaper as saying in a video announcement Monday.
He reportedly added that the closure – which a supply informed the Publish is predicted to occur by June – is due to “the profitable methods we put in place right here in New York Metropolis and due to insurance policies we advocated for on the border.”
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Migrants and asylum seekers arrive at Roosevelt Lodge in New York Metropolis in January 2024. (J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday RM through Getty Pictures)
New York Metropolis had round 69,000 migrants in its shelter system in January 2024, however that quantity has at present dropped to lower than 45,000, metropolis officers informed the Publish.
At one level, there have been 4,000 migrants exhibiting as much as the Large Apple each week, but that quantity too has dropped to a mean of 350, the newspaper added, citing Adams.
In the course of the closing few weeks of Joe Biden’s presidency, round 400-500 new migrants have been requesting metropolis assist each week, the Publish additionally reported.
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Migrants are seen sleeping exterior the Roosevelt Lodge in New York Metropolis in July 2023, as the power was at capability. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Day by day Information/Tribune Information Service through Getty Pictures)
Adams’ workplace didn’t instantly reply Monday morning to a request for remark from Fox Information Digital.
The anticipated closure of the Roosevelt Lodge shelter – which reportedly has been linked to gang exercise as effectively – comes as New York Metropolis has been shuttering different migrant care websites.
“We’re going to proceed on the lookout for extra websites to consolidate and shut, and extra alternatives to save lots of taxpayer cash, as we proceed to efficiently handle this response,” Adams mentioned in December when he introduced that 25 shelters are closing within the coming months.
Crime scene tape surrounds the realm of a stabbing in entrance of The Roosevelt Lodge in New York Metropolis in Might 2024. (Peter Gerber)
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Migrants who arrive after the Roosevelt Lodge shelter closure could have different places in New York Metropolis to register, metropolis officers informed the Publish.
Fox Information’ Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
