City officials provided amNewYork Metro a tour of the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center on Randall's Island Tuesday.
Hundreds of beds were stacked next to each other at the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center on Randall’s Island.to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams
The facility which has become known as Randall’s Island “Tent City” is scheduled to open on Oct. 19 and will serve as a temporary staging point to house arriving asylum seekers while also connecting them with the services they need, according to the mayor’s office. This will include medical examinations, food provisions, and connecting migrants with families wherever they may be in the country.
“This is really an exertion of the work we are doing at Port Authority,” Commissioner of New York City Emergency Management Zach Iscol said. “What we realized is that we needed a different type of operation that gave us the time and space to welcome people, to give them a warm meal, a shower, a place to sleep, to understand their medical needs, and then to really work with them and figure what their next step is going to be.
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