Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday that the hotel will stop housing migrants by June, calling the closure a milestone in New York City’s response to the crisis.

The mayor of New York City announced on Monday that the city would be ending its $220 million lease agreement with the Roosevelt Hotel, owned by Pakistan International Airlines, following criticism of American taxpayers’ money being used to house asylum seekers.

New York City's main migrant shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan will shut down, Mayor Eric Adams announced.

Named after former US president Theodore Roosevelt, the 19-story hotel is now rented by New York City to provide shelter to illegal immigrants. It has over 1,200 rooms. The hotel was shut down for renovation,

NYC's Roosevelt Hotel intake center and shelter, which has served as a support center and temporary housing for more than 173,000 asylum seekers since May 2023, is closing.

New York City mayor Eric Adams held the city's successful emergency response and policy decisions responsible for the closure of Roosevelt Hotel. Credit: Photobank.kiev.ua / Shutterstock. · Hotel Management Network · Photobank.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday the closure of the Asylum Seeker Arrival Center and the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center at the renowned Roosevelt Hotel, owned by Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). The decision marks the end of the city’s $220 million lease agreement with the hotel.

A controversial Manhattan hotel being used to shelter migrants is set to close. The Roosevelt Hotel became an emblem of New York City’s fraught effort to manage thousands of international migrants who have flooded into the city in recent years.

There are currently fewer than 45,000 migrants in the city’s care, down from a high of 69,000 in January of 2024 and out of the more than 232,000 that have arrived in New York City seeking city ...

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced the city is working to shut down what’s been called The Roosevelt Hotel’s “Asylum Arrival Center and Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief ...

The Roosevelt Hotel, a historic building converted to process tens of thousands of homeless foreign migrants as New York City's main intake shelter for almost two years, will close operations in ...