HARLEM, Manhattan (PIX11) -- Harlem residents held an emergency meeting Thursday night after learning a vacant luxury residential building would be used as an emergency shelter for migrants.

Members of Community Board 10 and other residents said they weren't notified of the plan. They figured it out when they saw workers delivering numerous bunk beds to the building at 2201 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.

Mayor Eric Adams made an unexpected stop at the meeting Thursday night.

"We are not moving asylum seekers and migrants into that place," Adams promised the residents.

Marricka Scott, a Deputy Commissioner in the city's Department of Social Services, acknowledged to residents that the original plan was to use the building as an emergency shelter but said now it will be used as transitional housing for New Yorkers with children experiencing homelessness.

Harlem residents who attended the meeting, like Regina Smith, said the building with a pool and apartments with marble countertops should be turned into affordable co-ops for people getting priced out of their own neighborhood.

"We absolutely need affordable home ownership. There are such things as low-income co-ops, um, and income-targeted affordable housing, and that's absolutely what we need," she told PIX11 News.