Controversial Creedmoor migrant shelter to close
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The massive migrant shelter on the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus in Eastern Queens will close in the coming weeks, state officials announced last week.
Read MoreLocal pols fume over Creedmoor redevelopment
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The state’s plan to redevelop more than 50 acres of vacant land on the Eastern Queens Creedmoor campus drew the ire of several local elected officials last week.
Read MoreCreedmoor to stay open as city begins to shut other migrant shelters
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The city will keep open one of its largest and most controversial migrant shelters as it moves to close over a dozen other shelters throughout Queens and the other four boroughs.
Read MoreCreedmoor redevelopment to run through 2040, new docs show
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While construction may begin within the next several years on the state’s massive plan to redevelop the Creedmoor Psychiatric Facility campus, new documents show it may be decades until the project is completed.
Read MorePols oppose city’s proposed Creedmoor shelter bed increase
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Local Eastern Queens electeds and community members criticized the Adams administration on Monday for considering additional beds for the migrant shelter located near the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.
Read MoreState pitches plan for Creedmoor development
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Officials on Wednesday released an ambitious plan to develop over 50 acres of the decrepit and long-abandoned Creedmoor campus in Eastern Queens with over 2,000 housing units, public spaces and various other amenities.
Read MorePush for affordable housing at Creedmoor begins
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As the state continues to draw up a plan for what to do with more than 50-acres of land at the mostly-abandoned Creedmoor Psychiatric Facility in Queens, and a group of locals are calling for the future development to include 100 percent affordable housing.
Read MoreWelcome to Queens: Migrants share their experiences at Creedmoor shelter
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Creedmoor shelter migrants share their experiences so far, from conditions to work authorization.
Read More13 arrested at protest against Creedmoor shelter
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13 protestors including former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa were arrested while protesting the Creedmoor migrant tent shelter in Queens Village on Wednesday night.
Read MoreCreedmoor tent shelter opens to migrants
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The migrant tent shelter at Creedmoor opened its doors to migrants on Tuesday, one day ahead of schedule, welcoming in the first 100 or so asylum seekers amid local pushback on the facility.
Read MoreProtestors clash over upcoming Creedmoor migrant shelter
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A chaotic scene in Eastern Queens broke out after a small group of Queens residents urging a more welcoming attitude toward asylum seekers clashed with a much larger group of people protesting an upcoming 1,000-bed tent shelter for migrants at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Campus.
Read MoreCompeting protests agree – ‘No migrant shelter at Creedmoor’
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The area near Creedmoor Psychiatric Center became the site of two rallies on Thursday, as locals and elected officials protested the city’s plan to bring a massive tent shelter for asylum seekers to the long-abandoned campus.
Read MoreCity to build migrant shelter at Creedmoor
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Despite pushback from a number of Eastern Queens officials, the city says it is moving forward with a plan to bring a 1,000-bed shelter for adult male asylum seekers to the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus in the coming months.
Read MoreMayor says Creedmoor, Aqueduct migrant shelters ‘still on table’
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Despite another day of local pushback from Queens officials over the city's plan to bring migrant shelters to two sites in the borough, the mayor says all options to house asylum seekers arriving to the city are “still on the table.”
Read MoreCity scraps plan to bring migrant shelter to Aqueduct
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Off the side of a highway on Monday evening, protesters and local elected officials gathered to oppose plans to construct a tent shelter for asylum seekers at the Aqueduct Racetrack in South Queens. However, just before the demonstration was set to begin, officials learned that the plan had been scrapped.
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