NYC Migrant Crisis News

Beatriz walks with one of her two daughters in Midtown while they were staying in a migrant family shelter.

Almost Half the Families Who Got 60-Day Eviction Notices Moved Out of Shelters

March 1, 2024, 2:01 p.m.March 4, 2024, 12:48 p.m.

Earlier data showed that 29% of migrant families who got such notices switched to other shelters, while 16% remained in their original shelter.

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Immigrant Who Housed Migrants in Queens Furniture Store: ‘We Had to Do Something’

Feb. 27, 2024, 8:50 p.m.Feb. 28, 2024, 12:56 p.m.

Until the city removed them Tuesday, about 70 “desperate” migrants, many of whom had been evicted from city shelters, had been sleeping inside the Richmond Hill storefront.

Workers bring supplies to the Hall Street migrant family shelter in Brooklyn.

Homeless Shelters

Brooklyn’s Hall Street Migrant Shelter Grows to 3,000, Testing Neighbors in Clinton Hill

Feb. 23, 2024, 5:01 a.m.April 21, 2024, 9:14 p.m.

Some have welcomed the influx of migrants, which now include children enrolled in nearby schools. Others have complained about an increase in trash, loitering, noise and street activity.

Migrants sleep in makeshift shelters overnight outside the St. Brigid reticketing site in the East Village.

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A Thousand Migrants Slept Outside or in Subways, NYC Official Survey Says

Feb. 16, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Feb. 15, 2024, 10:22 p.m.

While the Adams istration says the population in its care has gone down, that doesn’t for the migrants evicted from shelters and left to their own devices while seeking a new placement.

Dozens of migrants waited in the cold outside the St. Brigid re-ticketing site in the East Village.

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City ‘Channeling Leslie Knope’ to Clear Migrant Waiting Rooms

Feb. 14, 2024, 6:33 p.m.Feb. 14, 2024, 10:26 p.m.

Mayor Eric Adams wants the overflow sites where migrants evicted from shelters sleep on the ground while waiting for a new cot closed by Feb. 26, internal correspondence shows. To do that, the city is eyeing stricter policies to deny more people shelter placements.

Immigration

What Exactly Is a Sanctuary City and What Does That Mean for NYC?

Feb. 13, 2024, 5:01 a.m.Feb. 19, 2024, 10:09 p.m.

Republicans are urging for the laws to be rolled back. Immigrant rights advocates maintain they’re essential public safety measures. But what do sanctuary protections actually do?

Mayor Eric Adams speaks alongside Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg about a group of migrants allegedly assaulting an NYPD officer in Times Square.

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New Videos Contradict NYPD of Lead-Up to Times Square Attack on Cops

Feb. 8, 2024, 8:41 p.m.Feb. 9, 2024, 11:37 a.m.

Police said Yohenry Brito was disobeying a lawful order to disperse when an officer tried to arrest him, triggering a melee with nearly a dozen men. But footage released today shows he was walking away.

Albany

Albany Pols Grill Adams on ‘Tin Cup Day’

Feb. 6, 2024, 3:58 p.m.Feb. 7, 2024, 4:49 p.m.

The mayor is asking skeptical lawmakers for more money — for migrant care and other budget holes — and more direct control of education policy.

Karolynn Diaz, left, and Alejandro Arango return to the Row Hotel after their 60-day evictions, trying to reclaim items the hotel staff said would be stored.

Migrant Crisis

Evicted Migrant Families Were Told They Could Reclaim Their Stuff. Then It Disappeared.

Feb. 2, 2024, 12:47 p.m.Feb. 6, 2024, 2:44 p.m.

City staffers informed people being booted from Manhattan's Row Hotel they’d have 10 days to pick up items they couldn’t carry out. But ex-residents returned to find their possessions, including paperwork, missing.

Migrant Crisis

Almost Half the Families Who Got 60-Day Eviction Notices Moved Out of Shelters

Immigrant Who Housed Migrants in Queens Furniture Store: ‘We Had to Do Something’

Brooklyn’s Hall Street Migrant Shelter Grows to 3,000, Testing Neighbors in Clinton Hill

A Thousand Migrants Slept Outside or in Subways, NYC Official Survey Says

City ‘Channeling Leslie Knope’ to Clear Migrant Waiting Rooms

What Exactly Is a Sanctuary City and What Does That Mean for NYC?

New Videos Contradict NYPD of Lead-Up to Times Square Attack on Cops

Albany Pols Grill Adams on ‘Tin Cup Day’

Evicted Migrant Families Were Told They Could Reclaim Their Stuff. Then It Disappeared.

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