The Mamdani administration plans to close New York City’s last remaining emergency migrant shelter by the end of the year, according to a planning document released on Thursday.
The megashelter located at Bruckner Boulevard in the South Bronx opened in February 2025 and houses nearly 2,000 residents.
The site’s closure would finally shut the door on the city’s emergency shelter system for migrants that has accommodated more than 240,000 asylum-seekers, largely under previous Mayor Eric Adams.
But homeless advocates said the more than 250 sites propped up by the city — including at hotels and sprawling tent shelters at Floyd Bennett Field and on Randall’s Island — created a shadow system with less stringent rules and accommodations than traditional city shelters.
As the migrant shelter population has declined in recent years, the city has begun to close migrant-only shelters and transition asylum-seekers to more traditional shelters accommodating all New Yorkers. Starting next year with the closure of the South Bronx site, the city will no longer shelter new arrivals and longtime New Yorkers separately.
Shortly after taking office Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered the city’s Department of Social Services to come up with a plan to phase out its remaining emergency migrant shelter and bring other shelters into compliance with city rules — such as providing kitchens for families with children and limiting shelter to no more than 200 people.
The six-page plan said the last migrant megasite operating outside the traditional shelter system will shutter by December with residents relocated to beds run by the city’s Department of Homeless Services. Other department sites that were quickly erected for migrants but defy local shelter laws will be downsized, relocated or otherwise brought up to code, according to the plan.
The city also plans to open new shelters delayed under the Adams administration and increase the number of people leaving the shelter system and moving into permanent housing.
Right, I’m talking about the world.
I listed at least 7.
The AAA videogame industry revolves around Japan, China, and the west coast. No cares about Slavjank made by Polish devs.
They are growing in Latin America and still have a cultural stranglehold in the US, especially the South.
Now you’re just asserting this without bothering to say exactly what cultural exports they actually produce since no one cares about Broadway musicals.
More than NYC? There are definitely cheaper cities than NYC like Minneapolis. Not sure what your point here is.
Uh huh.
No one is going to boycott films just because movie execs appeared on Epstein’s island.
And I’m talking about New York being the leading city of the American Empire, not the world
Exactly, just like I said globally diffuse and not city specific
I dont fuckin need to, all I need to know is millions of wealthy libs across the planet care about it
YES! NYC has free childcare, LA does not, do you bother keeping up with recent developments
My point is Minneapolis isn’t the cultural or financial heart of America, New York City is
That’s not what I said, I said Hollywood is failing because of enshittification and AI oversaturation after Covid devastated the theater industry
Oh, so now we’re talking about leading city? We might as well just say it’s Washington DC. You know, the actual capital.
Literally everything you said about NYC like music, fashion, food, publishing, tourism, and art is globally diffuse. You think the rest of the world just bang on rocks for music, wear rags for clothes, and eat mud for food?
So what does that has to do with being the cultural heart of anything?
Which you did by throwing out some non sequitor about living costs. I might as well say New Orleans is the cultural heart of the US because they like eating gumbo.
The same theater industry that you prided NYC for bringing to the world? How is this an argument for NYC being the cultural heart of anything?
lmao yeah DC is the leading city and New York City is just a sideshow among American cities
I mean if you want to ignore the fact New York is number one in all major metrics that define a leading city and cultural heart because you’re angry Mamdani throws a wrench in your anti-electoral narratives, then go right ahead
I didn’t say that. And DC is the number one city when it comes to civic religion if we’re talking about cultural exports for a domestic audience.