Exclusive | NYC phases out 2 hotels used as migrant shelters and many other locations to shutter soon: Come a long way

The city has stopped using two hotels sheltering migrants in the Big Apple — with many other locations to be phased out in the coming months, The Post has learned.The 23-room Hotel Merit in Times Square and the 73-room Quality Inn JFK Airport are the first hotels the city has stopped using as emergency shelters as the influx of migrants into the five boroughs has significantly slowed.“We’ve come a long way since the first buses from Texas arrived in our city over two years ago, when we were working around the clock to care for the thousands of people who were arriving every week,” a spokesperson for Mayor Eric Adams said.Resettlement efforts and other resources have helped get 170,000 migrants out of the shelter system and onto the next step, the administration noted.“And thanks to our advocacy efforts on the federal level and executive orders issued by the Biden-Harris administration, we continue to see a decline in the number of people entering our shelter system every week,” the spokesperson added.“Our staff is on hand to help guests plan for next steps as the city consolidates its operations.”The overall costs to house migrants per night is $352 — including $130 to hotels for the room rental and separate payments social service, food and cleaning costs. Hotel Merit — at 414 West 46th Street between 9th and 10th Ave — had been used as a shelter for migrant families with children since July 2023 before it was phased out Nov.

4, city officials said.New York stopped using the Quality Inn at 153-95 Rockaway Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens as a shelter for migrant families last week.It had been in use since June 2023.Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has been able to begin reducing where asylum seekers are housed as the migrant population declines and many residents move out of the shelters.From Oct.

28 to November 3, more than 700 new migrants entered the city, while more than 1,000 departed.The migrant shelter population has plummeted from ...