NYC Migrant Crisis News

Volunteers handed out soup to migrants during a blustery winter day outside the East Village re-ticketing site.

Volunteer Shelters House More and More Migrants as City Cranks Up Evictions

Jan. 23, 2024, 1:35 p.m.March 1, 2024, 10:47 a.m.

Volunteers are working overtime in neighborhoods all around the city supplying shelter, hot food and warm clothing to migrants in need of them — including on the coldest days of the year.

Migrant families prepare to leave the Roosevelt Hotel shelter after receiving their 60-day notices.

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Evictions Will Be Delayed for Migrant Women Who Are Pregnant or Have Newborns, City Says

Jan. 17, 2024, 2:22 p.m.Jan. 17, 2024, 2:52 p.m.

The change comes after the Adams istration drew fire for evicting a migrant woman when she was 35 weeks into her pregnancy.

James Madison High School senior Zola Zephirin poses for a portrait outside the school.

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Brooklyn H.S. Baffled by Media Frenzy Over Migrant Families’ One-Night Stay

Jan. 11, 2024, 9:26 p.m.Jan. 11, 2024, 10:27 p.m.

James Madison reopened on Thursday after migrants living in tents spent a few hours — none of them during the school day — sleeping at the school while waiting out a wind storm Tuesday night.

The city evacuated migrants from Floyd Bennett Field while a major storm brought strong rain and winds.

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City Hall Scrambles to Send Migrant Families From Tent Shelter to Sleep in a School During Severe Storm

Jan. 9, 2024, 4:49 p.m.Jan. 11, 2024, 6:43 p.m.

The city sent nearly 2,000 parents and children from Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field to James Madison High to sleep on floors and in chairs in the midst of Tuesday’s rain and wind storm. The school is set to have remote classes on Wednesday.

Migrant families moving to and from the Roosevelt Hotel ahead of reaching a 60-day shelter limit, January 5, 2024.

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Migrant Families and Schools Brace for Wave of Shelter Evictions

Jan. 8, 2024, 5:00 a.m.Jan. 8, 2024, 1:54 p.m.

Thousands of migrant families with school-aged children in city shelters will reach the end of their 60-day time limit starting Tuesday. What happens next is unclear.

A bus with a Texas license plate carrying migrants pulls into Port Authority.

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NYC Sues 17 Migrant Bus Operators for $708M, Arguing They’ve Acted With ‘Evil Intent’

Jan. 4, 2024, 5:48 p.m.Jan. 4, 2024, 9:03 p.m.

The city argues that knowingly sending migrants here “to overwhelm our social services system” violates New York State law, while Texas says the suit violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

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What THE CITY Newsroom is Watching in 2024

Jan. 2, 2024, 7:48 a.m.March 12, 2024, 3:06 p.m.

Casinos, a federal takeover at Rikers, the ongoing migrant crisis and more. Here’s what our reporters have on their radar in the New Year.

Family sleeping pods were lined up in a giant tent at Floyd Bennett Field.

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Tent Shelter Guards Snatched Migrant Kids’ Scooters on Xmas Eve

Dec. 28, 2023, 4:55 a.m.Dec. 28, 2023, 12:27 p.m.

The children’s gifts were later returned by the private contractors, who a city spokesperson said acted professionally.

The exterior of what will soon be a new shelter, on a site where a gas manufacturing plant once stood across the street from two brownfield lots.

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Migrant Shelter Slated for Toxic Gowanus Site With Fast-Track OKs From City Agencies

Dec. 26, 2023, 3:54 p.m.Jan. 2, 2024, 2:16 p.m.

“Worst landlord” with history of speculating on shelter sites bought Third Street building last year.

A view from a security camera shows a Brooklyn street and a young man and young child looking at the door of a home. The man wears a blue jacket, white hat and blue surgical mask. The child is wearing a white hat and winter jacket.

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Migrants are Begging in Brooklyn Neighborhoods That Voted for Trump, Sparking Hostility and Help

Dec. 22, 2023, 5:00 a.m.Dec. 22, 2023, 9:22 a.m.

Nextdoor and Facebook groups are buzzing with anecdotes and photos from Marine Park depicting encounters with families who live at the Floyd Bennett Field shelter complex. Other neighbors are stepping up with aid.

Migrant Crisis

Volunteer Shelters House More and More Migrants as City Cranks Up Evictions

Evictions Will Be Delayed for Migrant Women Who Are Pregnant or Have Newborns, City Says

Brooklyn H.S. Baffled by Media Frenzy Over Migrant Families’ One-Night Stay

City Hall Scrambles to Send Migrant Families From Tent Shelter to Sleep in a School During Severe Storm

Migrant Families and Schools Brace for Wave of Shelter Evictions

NYC Sues 17 Migrant Bus Operators for $708M, Arguing They’ve Acted With ‘Evil Intent’

What THE CITY Newsroom is Watching in 2024

Tent Shelter Guards Snatched Migrant Kids’ Scooters on Xmas Eve

Migrant Shelter Slated for Toxic Gowanus Site With Fast-Track OKs From City Agencies

Migrants are Begging in Brooklyn Neighborhoods That Voted for Trump, Sparking Hostility and Help

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