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The Hall Street shelter in Brooklyn, which has drawn complaints, is among those soon to close in New York.
By Jeffery C. Mays
New York City officials plan to eliminate 10,000 beds for migrants, including closing one of the largest shelters in Brooklyn that had housed up to 4,000 people and drew quality-of-life and crime complaints from the nearby residential neighborhood.
The shelter closures, announced Friday, come as the number of immigrants arriving in New York continues to decline and the number of asylum seekers housed in the city is at an 18-month low.
The city has seen 229,000 migrants arrive since spring 2022, but is now home to just 51,000, up from more than 69,000 last January. New York City plans to close at least 46 immigrant shelters through June, according to city officials, a move they say will save billions of dollars.
Late last year, the city announced it would close the sprawling tent shelter housing thousands of migrants on Randall’s Island, as well as the tent complex housing families at Floyd Bennett Field in BrooklynArray.
The most recent circular of closures included 3 main humanitarian response and emergency relief centers: the Hall Street shelter in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn; and the Watson and Stewart hotels in Manhattan, as well as the Brooklyn Vybe hotel in Flatbush.
But even with migrant arrivals dwindling, the closures meant the city had to find a position to space out the thousands of people living in the tent complexes.
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