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NYC to open massive migrant shelter in the Bronx, close controversial

Hall Street shelter

Migrants line up outside a migrant re-ticketing center at St. Brigid School on E. 7th St. Jan. 5, 2024 in Manhattan. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News)

By Josephine Stratman | [email protected] | New York Daily News

UPDATED: January 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM EST

The city opening a massive new migrant shelter in the Bronx, the Daily News has learned — a
sign that city is still wrestling with the tens of thousands of migrants in the city’s care despite
dozens of shelter closures.
The administration is also planning to close 13 additional migrant shelters by June, according
to the Mayor’s office, including Clinton Hill’s Hall Street shelter, which has been the subject of
much controversy in the area .

“The policies we implemented, and the tremendous work of the dedicated public servants
who execute our mission, show how our administration continues to creatively and effectively
manage an unprecedented crisis,” Adams said in a statement.
“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.”
The new site, located in an industrial section of the Bronx off Bruckner Boulevard, will house
2,200 single men in the seven-story warehouse after in opens in the next couple months. It
was granted a slew of temporary permits last month to convert the space into a shelter, city
records show.
The space will be operated by the city’s Housing Recovery Operations office and is intended to
fill the gap left by the closure of the huge tent site at Randall’s Island and others, according to

City Hall.
“We should not be housing people shelters to begin with,” said Murad Awawdeh, president
and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition. “We should be giving them the services that
they need to get on their feet and actually get out of shelter and into permanent housing This
circling the wagon on creating more and more shelters, is not going to help the people who
are directly impacted.”
Councilmember Diana Ayala, whose district contains the shelter site, said she has concerns
about the building as a potential target for federal immigration officials.
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The new opening comes as the city has entered into a new phase of the migrant crisis:
Various shelter closures underway around the city have pushed migrants into new shelters. NYC mom stabbed to death
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Last week, single men living at a Bushwick shelter were pushed out and transferred to Wednesday, January 8
Randall’s to make way for adult families. At Floyd Bennett Field, which was fully vacated
earlier this week, families were sent to shelters across the city, including some to the Hall
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Street shelter set to be closed, according to Ariana Hellerman, a volunteer with mutual aid Adam Silver called him
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Adams has promised future closures and emphasized that city initiatives such as case
management and 30- and 60-day notices have caused the migrant crisis to ease up. New Rochelle shooting
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By June, the city plans to close over a dozen more shelters, including the Clinton Hill shelter DoorDash scam
and the Watson and the Stewart hotel sites. These closures will further reduce the city’s Wednesday, January 8

overall capacity by 10,000 beds — not counting the beds added by the Bruckner site.
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behind the city — although members of the City Council and the city’s Independent Budget them with fake jobs before
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Office have said the administration inflated cost estimates for migrant expenses .

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Economic Development Corporation, or SoBro, in 2023, city records show. Before the
pandemic, the building was converted into an office building.
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