Migrants forced to sleep on floor at NYC’s Roosevelt Hotel shelter, as city hits deadline for stay limit

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Migrants forced to sleep on floor at NYC’s Roosevelt Hotel shelter, as city hits deadline for stay limit
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Sobering Post photos show the asylum seekers sprawled out side-by-side in the middle of the once-iconic hotel’s former Vander Bar in Midtown Manhattan early Monday.

Nearly a dozen other migrants also could be seen sleeping upright in chairs or hunched over their few belongings as they tried to doze.

Under the rule, single adult migrants who reach their two-month limit have to head back to the city’s main intake center at the Roosevelt Hotel to reapply for a new shelter bed.But even after reapplying and getting another bed, that arrangement will now only last them 30 days before they have to reapply again if needed.the city was slashing the 60-day stay limit to just 30 days to try to discourage migrants from using the overwhelmed system too long.

Migrants line up outside the Roosevelt Hotel early Monday to be processed at the city’s main asylum-seeker intake center.Post photos of migrants sleeping on the floor inside the Roosevelt surfaced as the city’s eviction-notice deadline passed over the weekend.“They were supposedly going to move us to another place, but we don’t really know how long we will be staying here,” the 26-year-old said. “We have to wait for space if we don’t have anyone to contact to come get us.

Migrants — as with anyone in need in the Big Apple — are guaranteed a bed in the city’s shelter system under New York’s decades-old “Right to Shelter” mandate.Robert Mecea

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