City officials gave a tour of a family shelter on the Floyd Bennett Field national park, Oct. 30, 2023. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | December 28, 2023 Security guards at the cavernous migrant shelter for families with children at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn confiscated toy scooters from children who were playing with their […]
Editorial credit: Luis War / Shutterstock.com By Arya Sundaram | December 15, 2023 | Gothamist New York City’s budget watchdog estimates it will cost $6 billion to 7.8 billion to care for the city’s migrants over the next two years, up to $4.8 billion less than what the mayor’s office forecast in August. The new Independent Budget […]
The exterior of what will soon be a new shelter, on a site where a gas manufacturing plant once stood across the street from two brownfield lots. Credit: Alex Krales/THE CITY By Greg B. Smith | December 26, 2023 The Adams administration is now moving to open a 403-bed migrant shelter inside a manufacturing building alongside the […]
By Thomas Mackintosh & Vanessa Buschschlüter | December 25, 2023 | BBC News Thousands of migrants have set off on foot from southern Mexico in an effort to reach the United States border. Around 7,000 people mainly from South and Central America, including thousands of children, are estimated to have joined the migrant caravan. They […]
Scott Wexler is the Executive Director of the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association Link Washington, DC — In an op-ed, New York business leader and Executive Director of the Empire State Restaurant and Tavern Association Scott Wexler highlighted the role immigrants can play in strengthening the economy and filling thousands of open jobs. Noting that “New York’s hospitality industry […]
Editorial credit: Nelson Antoine / Shutterstock.com By The Associated Press | December 12, 2023 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.S. federal authorities said Wednesday that they detained 48 Haitian migrants who were abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said park rangers […]
Tweed Courthouse at 52 Chambers Street where the New York City Department of Education is headquartered on Apr. 27, 2021. Credit: Hiram Alejandro Durán/THE CITY By Michael Elsen-Rooney and Chalkbeat | November 29, 2023 New York City schools have started preparing for a massive reshuffling of students as early as next month, as thousands of migrant families […]
By Giulia McDonnell Nieto Del Rio | November 29, 2023 | documentedny At a hearing on Wednesday, city council members pressed the Department of Education for answers on how migrant children will be affected by Mayor Eric Adams’ administration’s shelter policies. Elected officials focused in on the 60-day-notice shelter transfer policy and toll it has […]
Migrant Jaile Escalón shops with her children for warm winter clothes at a Salvation Army while they stay at the Floyd Bennett Field family shelter, Nov. 21, 2023. Credit: Gwynne Hogan/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan | November 22, 2023 A huddle of families clustered on the damp corner of Avenue U and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn […]
By Annie McDonough | November 13, 2023 Inside midtown Manhattan’s grandly appointed Roosevelt Hotel – New York City’s central intake center for migrants – sit rows and rows of chairs. Lightly padded, a couple steps more comfortable than a plastic folding chair, they’re lined up under the chandelier in the hotel’s sprawling lobby. And on […]