Adams doesn’t rule out housing migrants on Rikers Island
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Mayor Eric Adams said that he would not take Rikers Island off the table as a potential place to house newly arrived migrants.
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City to open asylum seeker housing in Long Island City hotel
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The Wingate by Wyndham Hotel in Long Island City will open up 144 rooms to asylum seekers and become the city’s seventh “Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center” and the first in Queens.
Read MoreWestern Queens schools welcome migrant students but say city has fallen short on support
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In District 30, parents and school staff say that while they’ve embarked on several different efforts to meet the needs of the influx of newly arrived students, institutional support from the city has been lagging.
Read MoreCity scraps asylum seeker shelter in College Point
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The city scrapped a plan to temporarily house a little more than 100 of the thousands of asylum seekers sent from Texas to New York City in a College Point hotel this week.
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