New York City is temporarily turning a cruise ship terminal into a shelter and services hub for asylum-seekers.
FILE - The Manhattan skyline is seen behind the parking lot and terminal of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on April 2, 2020, in New York. New York City is temporarily turning the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal into a shelter and services hub for asylum-seekers, Mayor Eric Adams said Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023, announcing the latest in a series of facilities the city has set up, and sometimes shut down, as it strains to handle an ongoing influx.
The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will have room, food, medical care and other services for 1,000 single men until it reverts to the cruise business in springtime, the mayor's office said in a release. Its first occupants will move from another relief center at a hotel, which will switch to accommodating asylum-seeking families with children.
“Our city is at its breaking point,” said Adams, a Democrat who has repeatedly pleaded for state and federal assistance to address the flow of asylum-seekers — some of them
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