NEW YORK (PIX11) – Multiple migrant shelters, including the one located in Floyd Bennett Field, will be closing in the near future, according to New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
The shelters will all shutter within the coming two months. The amount of migrants staying at these shelters has dropped for the last five months and is at its lowest point, Adams said.
The Randall's Island migrant shelter is set to close on Feb. 28.
Here's where migrant shelters recently closed or are expected to soon:
Bronx
- El Rancho Hotel
Brooklyn
- Floyd Bennett Field
- Hotel RL
- Imperial Hotel
- Sleep Inn
Manhattan
- 97th Street Dorms
- Americana Inn
- Hotel Merit
- Randall's Island
- Upper West Side Dorms – Amsterdam
- Upper West Side Dorms – Stratford
Queens
- The Essence at JFK
- JFK Respite Center
- Quality Inn JFK
- Voyage Hotel
Migrant advocates are celebrating the closure of Floyd Bennett Field, calling on the city to come up with more permanent housing for asylum seekers.
"Floyd Bennett Field - a semi-congregate facility where families with children live in tents on an unused airfield mired in a flood zone, miles from schools, and other services - was always the wrong location to shelter vulnerable families with young children," The Legal Aid Society said in a statement.
"We urge the Adams administration to take further steps by focusing on humane and long term solutions that truly support our newest neighbors," said Murad Awawdeh, the president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition.
A pilot program that gave prepaid debit cards to migrant families is also ending in January.
Erin Pflaumer is a digital content producer from Long Island who has covered both local and national news since 2018. She joined PIX11 in 2023. See more of her work here.
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