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 MoreCourt dismisses Floyd Bennett shelter case brought by Queens pol
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A Brooklyn judge this week tossed out an effort from Queens and South Brooklyn lawmakers to get the city and state to shut down its migrant tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field.
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 MoreCongressional candidates Tom Suozzi and Mazi Pilip speak with the Eagle
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Ahead of this coming Tuesday’s special election, the Queens Daily Eagle spoke with New York 3rd Congressional District candidates Thomas Suozzi and Mazi Pilip to ask about their campaigns and the issues most important to their potential constituents.
Read MoreMayor defends poor conditions at Floyd Bennett Field shelter
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Mayor Eric Adams seemingly had one message for migrants who decided to leave a newly-opened shelter on the border of Queens shortly after arriving over the weekend – I warned you.
Read MoreMigrant crisis widens political rifts in Queens and beyond
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As the ongoing migrant crisis in New York City intensifies with no signs of slowing down, as has the rift between various sects of city electeds with different strategies for fighting it, splintering Mayor Eric Adams’ hopes of a united front.
Welcome 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 MoreFeds sign off on plan to bring migrant shelter to Floyd Bennett Field
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Governor Kathy Hochul said on Monday that she and the Biden administration had struck a deal to house more than 2,000 asylum seekers at a historic former naval air station just north of the Rockaway peninsula.
Read MoreAdams says migrant crisis could cost city $12 billion
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Mayor Eric Adams upped his administration’s projected cost of the migrant crisis this week, describing a grim and costly future for the city while defending his administration’s efforts to house and provide services to the nearly 100,000 asylum seekers who have arrived in the city in the past year.
Read MoreCity reaches new phase of migrant crisis
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Top City Hall officials said Wednesday that the migrant crisis, and the city’s response to it, has reached a new and dire chapter.
Read MoreAdams 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.
Read MoreCity 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.
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