After receiving multiple complaints from parents and elected officials, the city is moving asylum seekers from a Coney Island elementary school to a building formerly used by Touro College in Midtown.
The sudden change came after hundreds of parents rallied outside school buildings across the Brooklyn borough Tuesday calling for an emergency meeting to voice their concerns against the city’s immigrant housing plan.
New York already had six Brooklyn schools nearly ready to receive them, while some asylum seekers had already moved to Coney Island Public School 188 and another facility on Staten Island over the weekend.
New York Mayor Eric Adams stated that 50 percent of the city’s hotel rooms are currently occupied by immigrants, and the city is having a hard time getting other hotel rooms for them.
2023-05-18 15:17:00
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