The Adams administration is moving to open a 403-bed migrant shelter inside a long-contaminated Brooklyn building, to be run by a group that recently entered the shelter business.
According to a publication on The City news portal, the Adams administration will be opening a new shelter in Brooklyn, with about 400 beds in a building located at 130th and Third Street, near the Gowanus Canal.
The report states that the property lies on what was previously a gas manufacturing plant and is in front of two abandoned lots.
This, according to the report, is located in an area highly contaminated with toxic materials.
We wanted to confirm this information with the Mayor’s Office, however, by the closing of this report they had not responded.
The new home would be opening at the beginning of next year, according to the publication.
For its part, a spokesperson for the city’s Environmental Protection Agency or the EPA for its acronym told us that:
“The contaminants are at the bottom of the canal and underground, not in places where people would come into contact with them. The main risk is eating fish from the water or coming into direct contact with contaminated sediment.”
As for the asylum seekers who continue to arrive in New York, several shared their hopes for jobs and housing, one of whom did not want to give his name:
Wilmar Riascos has immigrated from Colombia:
“For many people, a lot of opportunity opens up, because there are people here who still do not have the opportunity to work, they do not have the means to pay, so that is an opportunity for the person to get ahead and survive in this country,” he maintains.
“The time is a little long, but we have to wait for the girls to see where to sleep. Right now we are going to the shelter they assigned us and we are already looking for the address to get there,” says another migrant from Ecuador.
And we spoke with a family that recently arrived from Ecuador and has been looking for a place in one of the city’s shelters for several days.
Carmen Saldaña says:
“Three daughters have traveled, with their families, me and my son and another family, who have come because, well, they extorted my daughter, they threatened to kill us, that is why we are here, otherwise we would not have come” .
On the other hand, the mayor insists on the lack of federal support and applauds the city’s work in favor of migrants.
It ensures that to date almost 8 thousand asylum applications, 9,400 work authorization applications and 6,100 applications for Temporary Protected Status or TPS have been processed.
2023-12-27 12:11:00
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