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NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – The Row NYC, New York City’s last remaining hotel housing migrants and asylum seekers, will soon close, Mayor Eric Adams announced.

The hotel on Eighth Avenue and 45th Street is expected to close “in the coming months,” Adams said in a statement. The Row NYC’s website still lists the hotel as “closed until further notice.”

The Row Hotel opened as a shelter for families with children in 2022, serving 200 families at first, according to Adams. It was the first hotel to convert to an emergency migrant shelter, according to the New York Times.

Over the past year, the city closed 64 migrant shelters, including the Roosevelt Hotel, which served as a check-in center for migrants arriving in New York City

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