New York State will reimburse the city for the cost of operating a tent city for adult migrants on Randalls Island, Mayor Eric Adams says
New York Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan Monday to house as many as 2,000 migrants on an island in the East River where a migrant centre was set up last year and then taken down weeks later.
“As the number of asylum seekers in our care continues to grow by hundreds every day, stretching our system to its breaking point and beyond, it has become more and more of a Herculean effort to find enough beds every night,” Adams, a Democrat, said in a news release. The city has rented out hotels to house migrants and has placed people in locations including a cruise ship terminal and a former police academy building as tens of thousands of asylum seekers have arrived over the past year.City officials announced a plan last month to house 1,000 migrants in the parking lot of a state psychiatric hospital in Queens.
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