New York Metropolis is shutting down 10 extra migrant shelters — together with a violence-ridden Brooklyn facility — because the variety of asylum seekers arriving within the Huge Apple drops to an 18-month low, Mayor Eric Adams stated Friday.
The controversial shelter at 47 Corridor St. in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood, which housed roughly 2,450 single male migrants on the peak of the disaster, is among the many handful of taxpayer-funded websites anticipated to shut in June, in accordance with metropolis officers.
It’s the newest batch of shelter closures introduced by town in latest months, because the stream of asylum-seekers slows.
“The additional closures we are announcing today, provides yet another example of our continued progress and the success of our humanitarian efforts to care for everyone throughout our system,” Adams stated in an announcement.
The troubled Corridor Road shelter, which outraged locals when it began welcoming migrants in droves in mid-2023, was stricken by reviews of gang-linked shootings and different crimes in what was a once-peaceful neighborhood.
Metropolis Corridor beefed up safety on the shelter in response the violence, however Hizzoner insisted as lately as final summer season that the shelter can be unlikely to shut again then as a result of there was nowhere to maneuver the residents.
The transfer to shutter the location and the 9 others — together with three in Brooklyn, three in Manhattan and one every in Queens, Staten Island and Yonkers — comes because the variety of migrants arriving in Gotham continued to say no for the twenty seventh straight week, Adams stated Friday.
Within the final week, 400 migrants got here to the Huge Apple, bringing the overall quantity within the metropolis’s care to 50,900, officers stated.
The migrant inhabitants swelled to a report excessive of greater than 65,000 in June 2023.
“Our intensive and smart efforts have helped more than 178,000 asylum seekers — 78% of the migrants who have ever been in our care — take the next steps on their journeys towards pursuing the American Dream,” Adams stated.
“We will continue to do everything we can to help migrants become self-sufficient, while finding more opportunities to save taxpayer money and turn the page on this unprecedented humanitarian crisis.”
