Dear New Yorkers,
Over the weekend, the city told dozens of asylum-seeking migrants to pack up and move from one shelter in Hell’s Kitchen to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook, where many said the facility lacked heat and hot water. Among them was Isaac, a 21-year-old Venezuelan, who had already been placed and then moved from the city’s controversial Randall’s Island shelter last year.
On Sunday night at 11 p.m., he was told to move to Brooklyn on an MTA bus. But when he got to the hangar-like facility, he turned back to the Manhattan shelter where he contemplated his next move with men just like him.
In Hell’s Kitchen, he was just a 10-minute subway ride from a job he secured cleaning a school at night.
“I don’t want to move just to start all over again,” he told THE CITY in Spanish.
The Brooklyn Terminal shelter follows two other similar sites for single men that the city set up in response to the influx of migrants, then abandoned.
Read more here.
And in case you missed it, read our guide on how to help migrants arriving in New York in recent months.
Some other items of note: - The MTA’s plans to bring Metro-North trains to Penn Station and build four new stations in The Bronx are expected to be delayed by at least six to nine months. MTA officials said Monday that the plan has run into “significant construction delays” because of “limited access” onto Amtrak-owned property.
- Real estate interests, the mayor, pro-housing trade organizations and tenant groups are all seeking allies in Albany as they seek to steer Gov. Kathy Hochul to prioritize their preferred — and competing — housing policies. Here’s a preview of the competing ideas to address the rent and housing crisis.
- See how New York City’s doing with our newsroom’s economic recovery tracker.
- For the latest local numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations, testing rates and more, check our coronavirus tracker.
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