A recently established temporary shelter in McCarren Park, which is located on the boundary of the trendy Brooklyn districts of Williamsburg and Greenpoint, has now become home to dozens of adult migrants who were previously sheltered in Queens.
According to asylum seekers and a representative for the mayor’s office, 55 male migrants were bused to the park’s well-liked Play Center just after midnight on Saturday. A few hours earlier, municipal personnel had been spotted carrying 100 military-style cots and infant supplies to the facility.
City Hall’s plans to accommodate up to 80 migrants in McCarren Park comes as Mayor Adams warned that the escalating migrant crisis will soon be heading “to a neighborhood near you”.
Meanwhile, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge hinted that she would demand that state lawmakers and governor Kathy Hochul provide the city extra funding so that it can adhere to its long-standing “Right to Shelter” legal requirements, which call for City Hall to give a bed to anybody in need.
In order to help with the expected $4 billion-plus cost of housing and providing social services to the more than 56,000 migrants now housed in the Big Apple shelter system, Albany has so far contributed $1 billion.
