Former jail off Central Park to house migrants
A shuttered jail off Central Park will be used to house some of the migrants flooding into the Big Apple, city officials said Sunday.
Manhattan’s old Lincoln Correctional Facility, which was shut down by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2019 as the state’s prison population declined, is being re-purposed to help accommodate asylum-seekers being bused almost daily to the five boroughs from the US border with Mexico. “We’re grateful to the state for providing this site and partnering with the city to open this space as a temporary site for asylum seekers as New York City continues to face this“We’ve had over 70,000 asylum seekers come through the city’s intake centers since last spring,” the representative said. “And yet hundreds of asylum seekers continue to arrive in New York City every day.
The former Lincoln Correctional Facility off Central park will be used as a temporary shelter for the unprecedented flow of migrants being bused to New York City from the US border with Mexico, city officials said.The 10,000-square-foot facility, a onetime minimum-security state prison, has been used in the past by the Young Women’s Hebrew Association and the city school system and once housed US troops during World War II.
The location, on West 110th Street on the northern end of Central Park, has been vacant since the state shut it down in September 2019, the city rep said. At that time, it was mainly being used for work-release program for nonviolent drug offenders,
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