A huge 2,200 migrant shelter only for men opened up in the bronx, despite the residents stretched to opposition to the move and while the city announces the closure of other migrant shelters in the whole New York CityIncluding Hotel Roosevelt on Manhattan.
The new facility, a former 275,000 -square -foot warehouse, began to accept migrants on Saturday, said the spokesman for the Mayor’s Office for Fox News Digital.
The opening of the facility, located at 825 E. 141, and the outlook that such a great appearance of people of migrants would be located in the community, caused angry scenes at a meeting of the Bronx Community Committee last month, where residents also said that they had never advised the decision.
The residents of Furious Bronx expressed anger at the Community Committee meeting last month after learning that they were powerless to prevent 2,200 migrant shelters only for men to open in their neighborhood. (Fox 5 NY)
New York to open a mass new migrant shelter of 2,200 beds for single men in bronx
“I have young women who come to me to study. I’ve never been afraid of the southern Bronx, now I’m terrified,” said Judy Kudlow, an artist who said she managed an art school directly across the building. “I’m terrified of my students. I’ll have to move … You made a terrible mistake.”
Vanessa Gibson, Democrat, also blown up the city because of the green light of the project before the community could talk about it. She wanted the place to be remodeled into a production facility to create more than 2,000 jobs.
One member of the Community Committee said that residents feel as if their community is treated as a “landfill” according to migrants. Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres.
Several protests also took place outside the facility in the last attempts to prevent it from opening, but they seemed to be in vain. Fox News Digital addressed the mayor’s office to confirm the opening of the shelter, but did not receive an answer before the publication.
Many migrants will be transferred to a bronx shelter from a predated shelter of a migrant tent on Randalls, according to New York Postquoting city records.
The opening of the Bronx shelter comes, given that the Adams office said on Monday that there are currently less than 45,000 migrants in city care, which is less than 69,000 in January 2024. New York taxpayers have dropped $ 1 billion to pay for housing for more than 232,000 they arrived in New York City, seeking city services from spring 2022.
The new shelter of a 275,000 -square -foot migrant shelter was previously a warehouse. (Google Maps)
Mayor Eric Adams says migrant shelter from Roosevelt NYC will close soon
Adams also announced on Monday that the massive shelter of the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan It will turn off In the next few months “Taxpayers’ savings of millions of dollars” savings. ”
AND New York Post The source said the closure would happen by June.
Hotel Roosevelt, which has about 1,000 rooms, has been processed more than 173,000 migrants Since its opening in May 2023 and has become the focal point of the city migrant crisis in the last two years, since it was the first stop of many border crusaders.
“Thanks to the decisions on the sound policy of our team, we are able to announce the closure of this site and help more asylum seekers to take the next steps on their travels, as they imagine an even brighter future, while saving taxpayers of millions of dollars,” Adams said.
In the meantime, Bronx was renovated in 2017 and is currently owned by Sobro Local Development Corporation, a non -profit organization whose mission is “improved the quality of life in the southern Bronx by strengthening the company and the creation and implementation of innovative economic, apartments, education, and programs for career development for young and adults. “
The non -profit organization website states that it manages more than 450 housing units of affordable and special needs in Bronx and Harlem.
New York Mayor Eric Adams said more than 232,000 migrants had arrived in the city since 2022. (Jeff Bachner/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Diana Ayala, a woman of the Democratic Council representing the parts of Bronx and Manhattan, including where she is open to open, at a meeting of the Community Committee last month that she recommended the place of New Boulevard, as well as other Bronx locations.
She said migrants have the right to take a strip and the city is legally owed home migrants.
“I can’t omit them on the street, I can’t let them sleep on the street unless they want to. They have to put them somewhere” said Ayalawho praised the treatment of Adam’s administration in crisis.
Fox News’ Greg Norman contributed to this report.
