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The people will be in dormitories spread over several floors of two buildings at a compound in Brooklyn Borough, where a 600-person shelter for men quietly opened a week ago. New York is sheltering some 100,000 people, of which 84,000 are recently arrived immigrants, the majority Venezuelans and waiting for a work permit. “We’re getting hundreds a week. The numbers are increasing and it’s still a drudgery for this city,” Adams said during a news conference Wednesday.
NEW YORK — New York City, where the flow of immigrants has not stopped since 2022, is preparing to have the largest shelter for new arrivals, with a capacity of 2,000 people, but the number could be even higher, according to the newspaper “The City”.
The people will be in dormitories spread over several floors of two buildings at a compound in Brooklyn Borough, where a 600-person shelter for men quietly opened a week ago. The second building that will be added to it can have up to 1,400 people.
The mayor’s office reported on Tuesday plans to house up to 2,000 people in those buildings, located near the Brooklyn Navy Yard industrial complex, but a source from the City Council assured “The City” that the number could exceed 2,000 people.
Mayor Eric Adams decreed a state of emergency last year due to the flow of immigrants that crowded the city’s shelters, which was forced to contract hotels both in the metropolitan area and in the north of the state to locate families with children, women and single men separately.
He has also denounced that the situation has created a financial crisis, which is why he has asked the federal government for financial help by stating that the immigration issue is an unresolved national problem, but his claim, which has been supported by Governor Kathy Hochul, does not has been heard.
New York is sheltering some 100,000 people, of which 84,000 are recently arrived immigrants, the majority Venezuelans and waiting for a work permit. The city has predicted that by the end of 2025 they will have spent 4.3 billion dollars to address the crisis caused by the flow of immigrants.
“We’re getting hundreds a week. The numbers are increasing and it’s still a drudgery for this city,” Adams said during a news conference Wednesday.
The mayor’s press spokesman, Fabian Levy, has told “The City” that the city’s plans are subject to change as needed.
He also indicated that the men’s shelter that is already operating in the Clinton Hill neighborhood in Brooklyn has capacity for 600 adults and that the second would house 1,400 people but did not go into further details.
If the new shelter were to have the 2,000 people that the city plans to place there, only the Row Hotel in Midtown Manhattan would house more immigrants, since it has a thousand rooms where families with children are accommodated, the newspaper recalls.
“Having so many people in a congregate center raises all kinds of issues related to security,” health and staffing” to care for them, Dave Giffen, executive director of the NGO Coalition for the Homeless, told the newspaper.
2023-07-12 20:28:08
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