The Big Apple is opening two more emergency centers to provide arriving migrants with housing and social services as the number of arrivals topped 74,000, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday.
A new Humanitarian Relief Center for asylum seekers will be established at 205 and 207 West 85th Street.Google Maps“New York City is facing a humanitarian crisis unlike any other before,” Adams said. “With more than 47,000 asylum seekers still in the city’s care and thousands continuing to arrive each week, we need a national decompression strategy to handle this national issue.”
He added: “[W]ithout federal aid and a strategy to move migrants around the nation we are unable to continue treating arriving asylum seekers with the dignity and compassion that they deserve.”
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