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(NewsNation) — New York City announced it volition unopen down its past migrant edifice successful the coming months.
The Row NYC was converted into a migrant structure successful October 2022 to code the overwhelming influx of migrants arriving successful the metropolis and served arsenic an exigency structure for thousands of asylum seekers.
The Row NYC's contract, which outgo the metropolis much than $5 cardinal a month, volition expire successful April. The multi-year declaration has generated much than $170 cardinal for the edifice since 2022.
Mayor Eric Adams confirmed the closure, calling it a “major milestone.” He said the metropolis has helped much than 200,000 migrants determination retired of shelters and enactment toward self-sufficiency.
The timing reflects a broader inclination crossed the country. Arrivals person dropped sharply owed to the Trump administration's migration policies. In New York City, the fig of arrivals has gone from astir 4,000 per week astatine the tallness of the situation to astir 100 per week. Earlier this summer, the metropolis besides closed its intake halfway astatine the Roosevelt Hotel.
The city-run structure web volition sorb the remaining migrants, which, arsenic of past week, was lodging astir 92,000 people, including much than 35,000 migrants.
The reduced accomplishment numbers person allowed the metropolis to measurement backmost from large-scale edifice usage similar Row NYC, a displacement besides underway successful cities similar Chicago and Denver.
Ditching costly edifice contracts similar this 1 reduces section authorities expenses.
