The Adams administration will shut down operations at New York City’s last hotel dedicated to housing homeless migrants in the coming months, the mayor’s office announced Saturday.

The Row NYC in Midtown was the first hotel complex in the city to be converted into temporary housing for migrants after the city’s shelter system became overburdened with a surge of asylum seekers in 2022 . The 1,300-room hotel was not taking guests when it was converted into a migrant shelter. It was also contracted by the city to be used as a homeless shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Three years ago, thousands of migrants and asylum seekers began streaming into our city every week — and the Adams administration stepped up,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement. “We opened hundreds of emergency migra

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