NYC's Floyd Bennett Field migrant shelter to shutter in coming months: 'Turned the corner'

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The Brooklyn shelter, entangled in debates since its 2023 opening, is capable of housing up to 2,000 migrants.

Genesee and Wyoming Counties from 4PM Wednesday through 1PM Friday. Areas of heavy lake effect snow are likely during this time.A shelter at a Brooklyn airfield capable of housing up to 2,000 migrants will close within the next two months, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced in a

Thanks to our smart management strategies, we’ve turned the corner, and this additional slate of shelter closures we’re announcing today is even more proof that we’re managing this crisis better than any other city in the nation,” the mayor said. “Our intensive case management, paired with 30- and 60-day policies, have helped more than 170,000 migrants take their next steps on their journeys, because migrants don’t come here to live in our shelter system — they come here to pursue the American Dream,” Mayor Adams noted.

Molly Schaeffer, who serves as the executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Asylum Seeker Operations, said the Floyd Bennett Field shelter functioned as a “relief valve.”

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