STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Five Staten Island migrant shelters are still open, but Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday that two dozen would be closing.
During an unrelated press conference on Wednesday, Adams refused to answer a question about the closure of migrant shelters, but one of the local authorities who accompanied him criticized the shelters that remained.
Four of the Island’s five migrant shelters are located in Councilman David Carr’s (R-Mid-Island/South Shore) district. He took special issue with three at Travis hotels that have been operational since the beginning of the migrant crisis.
“It’s shameful that none of the shelters on Staten Island will be closed as part of a plan to close many throughout the city,” he said. It’s long overdue for the administration to close the three shelters that have been functioning in Travis and the rest of our borough. The people of Travis in particular have had to put up with at least one of the shelters for more than two years.
Adams’ announcement on Tuesday did not include the Island’s five shelters, which include a Port Richmond church, a former Island Shores senior community, a Ramada Inn on North Gannon Avenue, and three Travis hotels.
The mayor closed large humanitarian emergency assistance shelters on Randall’s Island and at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.
According to Adams, the shelters were closing because his government implemented measures to get the migrants out of shelter and the city has been coping with fewer and fewer new arrivals in recent months.
“Our intensive case management, paired with 30- and 60-day policies, have helped more than 170,000 migrants take their next steps on their journeys, because migrants don t come here to live in our shelter system they come here to pursue the American Dream,” he stated. As we continue to effectively manage this response, we will keep searching for further facilities to close and combine, as well as additional possibilities to save public dollars.
Throughout the migrant crisis, the Adams administration has insisted that Staten Island has been housing between 1% and 2% of the city’s migrants.
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