Videos shared with Gothamist show rainwater entering from above and below. Residents used plastic garbage bags to stay dry.
P.P., a 28-year-old migrant from Russia and Ukraine living at the Randall’s Island shelter, said water was leaking into the area where she slept as of 3 p.m.
Rainwater began to seep into the tent as early as 8 a.m., according to migrants' and advocates' accounts. Videos of the scene were provided to Gothamist by P.P., the South Bronx Mutual Aid group, and Colectiva de Ayuda Mutua NYC, another mutual aid group.in August, can accommodate up to 3,000 adults and is among more than 200 shelters the city has set up in the past year to house tens of thousands of newly arriving migrants.
An even greater amount of rainwater leaked into the tent camp late last week, migrants and their advocates told Gothamist. Migrants staying at the facility have to use bathroom trailers outside, further exposing them to the elements. “There is no way you can be dry,” P.P. said in Russian.said M35 buses — the only available public transit on the island — were suspended due to flooding there.
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