NYC to close migrant shelter at Brooklyn airfield by early 2025

New York City is closing one of its largest migrant shelters “in the coming two months,” Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday.

The Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center at Floyd Bennett Field, located at a former airfield in the borough of Brooklyn, joins a growing list of 25 shelters the city has either closed or is in the processing of shutting down.

“Thanks to our smart management strategies, we’ve turned the corner, and this additional slate of shelter closures we’re announcing today is even more proof that we’re managing this crisis better than any other city in the nation,” Mayor Adams said in the statement, which further noted that "the number of asylum seekers in city shelters has decreased for 22 straight weeks and is now at its lowest point in over 17 months."