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By Chris Sommerfeldt
New York Daily News
(TNS) Dozens of migrants who have been camping outside the Adams administration’s asylum seeker arrival center in Manhattan were moved inside early Thursday after some of them spent nearly a week sleeping on the sidewalk amid overcrowding in the city’s shelter systems. headline news
The arrival center operated out of Midtown’s Roosevelt Hotel is where newly-arrived migrants are supposed to go to be processed to get a bed in a city shelter.
Last weekend, some adult migrants who showed up at the Roosevelt were told the shelter system was at complete capacity and that there was no more room inside the hotel, meaning they needed to wait on the curb until space opened up. By Tuesday, hundreds of migrants were sleeping on the sidewalk inside of a metal fence partition set up by city workers — a scene that prompted outrage from advocates for the desperate travelers.
As of around 10 a.m. Thursday, though, the space migrants once occupied outside the Roosevelt was clear.
City workers and NYPD Community Affairs officers milling about in front of the hotel told the Daily News that the roughly 100 migrants who remained camped out on the sidewalk were moved inside around 8 a.m. Thursday to be processed after space opened up. One security guard said some were quickly processed and provided beds in city shelters.
Also Thursday morning, National Guard troops could be seen carrying large cases of water bottles inside the hotel.
A spokeswoman for Adams did not immediately return a request for comment.
The dire situation outside the Roosevelt comes as more than 50,000 migrants, most of them from Latin American countries, are staying in city shelters and emergency housing facilities. In total, more than 107,000 people are in the city’s shelters, an all-time high, and hundreds more migrants continue to arrive every week, many of them after crossing the U.S. southern border in hopes of claiming asylum.
Adams has repeatedly said the migrant influx is “unsustainable” for the city and warned that his administration is “out of room” to house more people. He has pleaded for months with President Biden’s administration to provide the city with more assistance.
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