While hordes of adult men were among the first to take up residence on the rows upon rows of green cots, migrants told The Post on Monday there are now more than a dozen young children staying at t…
In yet another disturbing twist to the migrant crisis in New York City, families with young children are sleeping alongside adult single men at a makeshift shelter inside the NYPD’s old Manhattan police academy gym — a move asylum seekers and officials have both slammed as unsafe, The Post has learned.last week after the Adams administration declared the city had hit its “limit” amid the recent surge of migrants flowing into the Big Apple.
Migrant families with young children are currently being housed in the NYPD’s old Manhattan police academy gym shelter alongside single adult men.Alan Cardena, a migrant from Panama who is staying at the shelter with his mom, estimated there were about five teens and a dozen children under 7 years of age currently staying at the shelter.
Department of Social Services Commissioner, Molly Park, acknowledged the presence of migrant kids at the shelter on Monday, testifying during a City Council budget hearing that the agency was working to relocate the families to “alternative placements.”The migrants are sleeping on rows and rows of green cots inside the open-plan gym building in Gramercy Park.G.N.Miller/NYPost
“The City cannot shelter families with children in congregate settings,” they said in a joint statement with the Coalition for the Homeless. “Children with families have both legal protection and specific requirements where they should be housed all together rather than housed with a larger population because there’s a host of issues,” Powers said.
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