NYC’s Notorious Roosevelt Hotel Shelter Will Be Migrant-Free in Coming Months, Mayor Eric Adams Says

The notorious migrant shelter and arrival center at Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel will close in a couple of months, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday — as data showed the number of asylum seekers entering the city’s care has dropped nearly 200% since the crisis’ peak.

The impending closure of the centralized intake center and emergency shelter at the beleaguered Midtown hotel is a “milestone” for the Big Apple in the years-long migrant crisis, Adams said.

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The Roosevelt Hotel shelter and intake center — which opened in May 2023 when the five boroughs saw an average of 4,000 arrivals weekly — became a symbol of the city’s struggle to contend with the migrant crisis.

The influx of migrants prompted city officials to use the Roosevelt as the city’s intake shelter, and 173,000 signed up for services at the hotel between May 2023 and this February.

But problems plagued the iconic hotel after its conversion to a migrant shelter, including becoming a breeding ground for gangs, droves of illegal delivery bikes and dozens of migrants being forced to sleep outside after it hit capacity last year.

The converted hotel likely will stop being a migrant shelter by June, a source told The Post.

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More than 232,000 migrants have reached the city since the crisis first began nearly three years ago. But New York’s migrant woes have steadily eased as the sheer number of asylum seekers slowed — with arrivals now down to 350 a week on average, data shows.

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Adams has faced allegations he made a deal with the Trump administration in which he would help with the president’s crackdown on illegal immigration in exchange for the Department of Justice tossing his federal corruption case.

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