An enormous 2,200 male-only migrant shelter has opened within the Bronx regardless of residents venting their opposition to the transfer and because the metropolis proclaims the closures of different migrant shelters all through New York Metropolis, together with the Roosevelt Lodge in Manhattan.
The brand new facility, a 275,000-square-foot former warehouse, started accepting migrants on Saturday, a spokesperson for the mayor’s workplace advised Fox Information Digital.
The opening of the ability, situated at 825 E. 141st St., and the prospect of such a big inflow of migrant males being housed in the neighborhood sparked livid scenes at a Bronx group board assembly final month the place residents additionally stated that they have been by no means consulted on the choice.
Livid Bronx residents expressed their anger at a group board assembly final month after studying they have been powerless to cease the large 2,200 male-only migrant shelter from opening of their neighborhood. (Fox 5 NY)
NEW YORK TO OPEN MASSIVE NEW 2,200-BED MIGRANT SHELTER FOR SINGLE MEN IN THE BRONX
“I’ve younger girls who come to me to check. I’ve by no means been afraid within the South Bronx, I’m now terrified,” Judy Kudlow, an artist who stated she operates an artwork faculty straight throughout from the constructing stated. “I am terrified for me, for my college students. I should transfer… You will have made a horrible mistake.”
Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, a Democrat, additionally blasted town for greenlighting the undertaking earlier than the group might focus on it. She needed the location repurposed into a producing facility to create greater than 2,000 jobs.
One group board member stated that residents felt like their group was being handled as “a dumping floor” for migrants, as did Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres.
A number of protests have additionally taken place outdoors the ability in last-ditch makes an attempt to forestall it from opening, however they seem to have been in useless. Fox Information Digital reached out to the mayor’s workplace for affirmation of the shelter’s opening however didn’t obtain a response previous to publication.
Most of the migrants will likely be transferred to the Bronx shelter from the sprawling migrant tent shelter on Randalls Island, in keeping with the New York Publish, citing metropolis information.
The opening of the Bronx shelter comes as Adams’ workplace stated Monday that there are at present fewer than 45,000 migrants within the metropolis’s care, down from a excessive of 69,000 in January 2024. New York Metropolis taxpayers have forked out billions of {dollars} to pay for housing for greater than 232,000 who’ve arrived in New York Metropolis looking for metropolis providers because the spring of 2022.
The brand new 275,000-square-foot migrant shelter was beforehand a warehouse. (Google Maps)
MAYOR ERIC ADAMS SAYS NYC’S ROOSEVELT HOTEL MIGRANT SHELTER WILL SOON CLOSE
Adams additionally introduced on Monday that the large Roosevelt Lodge migrant shelter in Manhattan will shut down within the subsequent few months, “saving taxpayers tens of millions of {dollars}.”
A New York Publish supply advised the outlet that the closure is anticipated to occur by June.
The Roosevelt Lodge, which has round 1,000 rooms, has processed greater than 173,000 migrants since its opening in Might 2023 and has turn into a focus of town’s migrant disaster during the last two years, because it was the primary cease for a lot of border crossers.
“Because of the sound coverage selections of our group, we’re capable of announce the closure of this website and assist much more asylum seekers take the following steps of their journeys as they envision an excellent brighter future, whereas concurrently saving taxpayers tens of millions of {dollars},” Adams stated.
In the meantime, the Bronx facility was renovated in 2017 and is at present owned by SoBro Native Improvement Company, a nonprofit group whose acknowledged mission is to “improve the standard of life within the South Bronx by strengthening companies and creating and implementing progressive financial, housing, instructional, and profession growth packages for youth and adults.”
The non-profit’s web site states that it manages greater than 450 reasonably priced and special-needs housing models within the Bronx and Harlem.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams stated that greater than 232,000 migrants have arrived within the metropolis since 2022. (Jeff Bachner/New York Day by day Information/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Photos)
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Diana Ayala, a Democratic councilwoman who represents elements of the Bronx and Manhattan, together with the place the shelter is ready to open, stated ultimately month’s group board assembly that she really useful the brand new Bruckner Boulevard website, in addition to different areas within the Bronx.
She stated the migrants have a proper to shelter and town is legally obligated to deal with the migrants.
“They’ll’t depart them out on the road, they’ll’t allow them to sleep on the road, until they need to. They must put them someplace,” stated Ayala, who praised the Adams administration’s dealing with of the disaster.
Fox Information’ Greg Norman contributed to this report.
