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“This isn’t the solution for the next two, three, four months — this is giving us a little breathing room for the next few days, really,” warned Christina Farrell, the city’s first depu…
on Randall’s Island’s youth soccer fields to house 3,000 people — 50% more than expected — before asylum seekers even moved in Sunday. The site, which will now consist of five dormitory-style tents, began housing the first wave of migrants there in the afternoon, with about 150 single men expected before the end of the day, city officials said.
“This isn’t the solution for the next two, three, four months — this is giving us a little breathing room for the next few days, really,” warned Christina Farrell, the city’s first deputy commissioner of Emergency Management, to reporters during a tour Sunday. Each air-conditioned sleeping tent will house 600 green and black cots, while a dining tent featuring long white tables will offer three meals a day. The dining center will stay open 24/7 to also provide ’round-the-clock drinks and snacks, and laundry service and individual lock boxes will be offered, too.The new migrant tent city on Randall’s Island, which took in its first 150 single men Sunday, is being funded by the state and will cost taxpayers an estimated $20 million a month. Authorities initially said the facility would house 2,000 migrants, but that figure was upped to 3,000, officials revealed Sunday — as the city groans under its massive migrant influx. “There are a lot of misconceptions and misinformation about facilities such as these,” Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Manuel Castro told reporters. “But as you can see, these facilities are well-constructed.The first bus of single men pulled up to Randall’s Island at 1:53 p.m. “I’m feeling good,” said Rafael Bracho, a 29-year-old Venezuelan immigrant who said he’s been in the city for six months. “The government of the United States of America, they help you.”Ted Long, senior vice present of NYC Health/Hospitals, said there will be 24/7 security at the site. “As everybody knows with the number of asylum seekers crossing our borders into our country each day, we are seeing the numbers go down,” Long said. “However, in New York City we are seeing the number of asylum seekers every day go up.Farrell said the men being moved in Sunday were selected from among the thousands of migrants being housed by the city. “We have different populations,” she said. “We have adult families, single women and single men. Since we are starting with single men, we looked at our different facilities and who has been at our sites the longest. And so these are the people we are moving in today.”City Hall has been slammed by critics over putting migrants on heavily used soccer fields on the island off Manhattan.to keep it up and running, Gov. Kathy Hochul said earlier this month. It is one of four state-funded migrant sites, with Hochul’s plan to add Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, a former US military airfield, fizzling after White House officials backed off on approving the plan.
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