A huge migrant refuge of 2,200 men only opened its doors in the Bronx despite the residents who expressed their opposition to this decision and as the city announces the closings of other migrant shelters in New York, including the Roosevelt hotel in Manhattan.
The new installation, a former warehouse of 275,000 square feet, began to accept migrants on Saturday, the migrants, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office.
The opening of the establishment, located at 825 E. 141st St., and the prospect of such an important influx of migrant men hosted in the community sparked furious scenes at a meeting of the Bronx Community Board the month The last residents also said that they were never consulted on the decision.
Residents of Furious Bronx expressed their anger at a community council meeting last month after learning that they were powerless to prevent the refuge of massive migrants of 2,200 men from opening in their neighborhood. (Fox 5 ny)
New York to open a new migrant refuge of 2,200 beds for single men in the Bronx
“I have young women who come to see me to study. I have never been afraid in the South Bronx, I am now terrified,” said Judy Kudlow, an artist who said she was exploiting a school of Art directly in front of the building. “I am terrified for myself, for my students. I will have to move … You made a terrible mistake.”
The president of the Bronx district, Vanessa Gibson, a democrat, also castigated the city to clarify the project before the community could discuss it. She wanted the site to be reused in a manufacturing installation to create more than 2,000 jobs.
A member of the community’s board of directors said that residents felt as if their community was treated as “a dumping ground” for migrants, just like The member of the Democratic Congress Ritchie Torres.
Several demonstrations also took place outside the installation in the attempts of the last element to prevent it from opening, but they seem to have been in vain. Fox News Digital contacted the mayor’s office to confirm the opening of the refuge but did not receive an answer before the publication.
Many migrants will be transferred to the Bronx refuge from the sprawling migrant tent shelter on Randalls Island, according to the New York Postquoting city records.
The opening of the Bronx refuge intervenes when the Adams office said on Monday that there were currently less than 45,000 migrants to the city care, against a summit of 69,000 in January 2024. The taxpayers of New York Destroy billions of dollars to pay for accommodation for more than 232,000 people who arrived in New York in search of city services since spring 2022.
The new shelter migrating 275,000 square feet was previously a warehouse. (Google Maps)
Mayor Eric Adams says that the New York Roosevelt Migrants refuge will soon close
Adams also announced on Monday that the huge migrant refuge of the Roosevelt hotel in Manhattan would close in the coming months, “save millions of dollars”.
A New York Post Source has declared to the point of sale that the closure should occur by June.
The Roosevelt hotel, which has around 1,000 rooms, has treated more than 173,000 migrants since its opening in May 2023 and has become a focal point of the city’s migrant crisis in the past two years because it has been The first stop for many border overruns.
“Thanks to the right political decisions of our team, we are able to announce the closure of this site and to help even more asylum seekers to take the next steps for their trips when they consider a still future Bully, while saving millions of dollars in taxpayers, millions of dollars, “Adams said.
Meanwhile, the installation of the Bronx was renovated in 2017 and currently belongs to Sobro Local Development Corporation, a non -profit organization whose mission declared is to “improve the quality of life in the South Bronx by strengthening businesses and By creating and implementing innovative housing, accommodation, education and career development programs for young people and adults.
The non -profit organization website indicates that it manages more than 450 affordable and special housing units in the Bronx and Harlem.
New York mayor Eric Adams said that more than 232,000 migrants have arrived in the city since 2022. (Jeff Bachner / New York Daily News / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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Diana Ayala, a Democratic counselor who represents parts of the Bronx and Manhattan, including where the refuge should open, said at the meeting of the community council last month that she recommended the new site of Bruckner Boulevard, as well as D ‘other bonx locations.
She said that migrants had the right to take shelter and that the city is legally forced to house migrants.
“They cannot leave them on the street, they cannot let them sleep on the street, unless they wish. They must put them somewhere,” said Ayala, who congratulated the treatment of the Crisis by Adams administration.
Greg Norman of Fox News contributed to this report.
