NYC to open new 2,200-bed migrant mens shelter despite saying crisis has slowed, as locals fear chaos
City officials are prepping an old South Bronx storage facility for up to 2,200 migrant men from the troubled Randall’s Island tent city — all while crowing that the asylum-seeker crisis is waning.And it’s just around the corner from “The Hub” — one of the Big Apple’s most drug-addled strips.“Wrong move!” neighborhood resident Serene Bilal told The Post.“You need to work with the people already here.
We have issues going on.Why the Bronx? Why pick on the Bronx?“It’s going to be dangerous,” the 21-year-old videographer said.
“We don’t know who these people are.We are not talking about 10 people.
We’re talking about thousands.That’s a lot.”The plans — which got final approval last month, records show — call for the shelter to open next month at 825 E.
141st St.to house migrant men who were at the troubled tent city at Randall’s Island.The city will pay between $250,000-$340,000 to retrofit the building after approving an emergency contract that did not go through the standard bidding process, records show.The city was forced to scramble to find space for migrants flooding into the city since 2022, converting old schools and churches into shelters and erecting tent cities at Randall’s Island and at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn — which was shut down by the city over the weekend.Word of the plan comes after City Hall said the influx of migrants in the five boroughs has slowed significantly as the number of asylum seekers in city shelters tapers off.City officials announced in October that the massive Randall’s Island encampment — which sources said has become a breeding ground for the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — will be closed, and made a similar announcement about dismantling another tent city at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.Displaced migrants, officials said, would be moved to other shelters.They neglected to mention the new Bronx facility, which came as a surprise to area merchants and residen...