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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Jennifer Peltz

New York City is set to close a controversial migrant shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel

A Manhattan hotel-turned-shelter is set to close after becoming an emblem of New York City's fraught effort to manage an influx of international migrants.

Mayor Eric Adams said this week that the Roosevelt Hotel and more than 50 other migrant shelters are no longer needed and will shut by June. Arrivals have plummeted in the last seven months, and the city has ushered many migrants to other housing and other communities, he said.

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