NEW YORK — The last major hotel housing migrants in New York City, the Row NYC in Times Square, will stop operating as a shelter in the coming months, Mayor Eric Adams announced.

The mayor said Saturday that the city would not renew its lease with the Row when it expires in April, citing a continued decline in the number of migrants arriving in the city, as border crossings have plummeted to record lows.

Families living at the Row will be transferred to other facilities in the city’s traditional homeless shelter system. Those shelters have recently absorbed thousands of homeless migrants as the city has continued to close shelters that once exclusively housed migrants, winding down its emergency response to the migrant crisis.

The Row, a four-star hotel on Eighth Avenue in the heart of

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