Two new migrant relief centers coming to Upper West Side college dorm buildings
more migrants out of New York City into other localities around the country. At this point, the city is overloaded, Adams and top administration officials have said, with over 74,000 asylum seekers who’ve arrived in the five boroughs since last year and 47,000 currently in the city’s care.
“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.
Adams’ press secretary Fabien Levy said that besides a bed to sleep in, the new HERRCs will offer the same wrap-around services available in the city’s nine other relief centers — meals, clothing and legal services. In addition to the nine HERRCs, the city has opened nearly 170 emergency shelters, mostly located in hotels, and has filled its homeless shelter system at capacity. to help cover the cost of sheltering, feeding and clothing tens of thousands of newcomers.
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