It\u2019s the end of an error.<\/p>\n
New York City\u2019s last-standing \u2014 and most notorious \u2014 migrant hotel will soon stop housing illegal border crossers, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
The once-four-star Row NYC hotel on Eighth Avenue in Midtown was repurposed in October 2022,<\/a> so its 1,331 rooms could be used as a shelter while the Big Apple dealt with the crippling migrant crisis, but Mayor Eric Adams confirmed the city\u2019s $5.13 million-a-month contract <\/a>with the hotel won\u2019t be renewed in April.<\/p>\n New York City\u2019s last-standing and most notorious migrant hotel \u2013 the Row NYC \u2014 will soon stop housing illegal border crossers. The city\u2019s $5.13 million-a-month contract with Row NYC expires in April and will not being renewed. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n The deal has allowed the hotel \u2014 which is owned by Boston-based real estate titan Rockpoint Group \u2014 to already rake in more than $170 million.<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear what the future holds for the establishment, which once charged $414\u00a0to\u00a0$435\u00a0per weeknight for standard rooms before becoming a shelter. Reps for the company did not return messages.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are proud to share that we will be closing another site \u2014 the Row\u00a0Hotel, the last\u00a0hotel\u00a0in the city\u2019s\u00a0emergency shelter system\u00a0\u2014 marking yet another major milestone in our administration\u2019s recovery from this international humanitarian crisis,\u201d Adams told The Post Friday.<\/p>\n NYPD officers arresting two migrants at the Row Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n The Row, which boasts on it\u2019s website that is \u201cmore New York than New York,\u201d<\/a> was the first hotel to be enlisted by the city to take in migrants after Adams declared the city\u2019s existing homeless shelter system had reached a \u201cbreaking point.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Since then, it\u2019s been magnet for stabbings and other crimes, with rowdy Tren de Aragau-linked gangbangers among its tenants, including one 25-year-old Venezuelan migrant who allegedly broke into a Manhattan prosecutor\u2019s apartment, robbed her at gunpoint and pleasured himself in front of her.<\/p>\n Other thugs staying there also attacked cops on numerous occasions, including a July 2024 incident where one officer was bit and other had a moped hurled at them. <\/p>\n Workers there have also complained the hotel has become a wild \u201cfree-for-all\u201d of sex, drugs and violence after the city began housing migrants there,.<\/a><\/p>\n Rooms inside The Row Hotel, which the city turned into a migrant shelter, included squalid conditions. Dennis A. Clark<\/p>\n The Midtown South Precinct, that includes Row NYC and the Times Square area, has long had among the highest crime rates in the city. Although the precinct that seen a nearly 10% decline in crime this year compared to 2024, burglaries are up nearly 16% and felony assaults 2%, NYPD data as of Aug. 3 show.<\/p>\n The migrant crisis has cost city taxpayers more than $8 billion since spring 2022 to provide food, shelter and other services to over 238,000 migrants who flooded into the country because of former President Joe Biden\u2019s lax border policies.<\/p>\n At its peak, NYC used 220 hotels and other contracted sites to house the newcomers.<\/p>\n As of June 25, 2024, the city was operating 193 migrants shelters of which 153<\/a>, or nearly 80%, were former hotels and other lodging establishments<\/a>\u00a0like The Roosevelt in Midtown that were being subsidized by taxpayer dollars, according to an internal list active shelters then reviewed by The Post.<\/p>\n Rob Jejenich \/ NY Post Design<\/p>\n Others included houses of worship, recreation centers, and controversial pop-up \u201ctent city\u201d complexes, including one erected to house 3,000 migrants on\u00a0Randall\u2019s Island<\/a>; nearly 2,000 at\u00a0Floyd Bennett Field<\/a>\u00a0in Brooklyn; and another 1,000 outside\u00a0Creedmoor Psychiatric Center\u00a0<\/a>in Queens.<\/p>\n However, the city is now down to just four contracted shelters, with the Row NYC being last remaining lodging establishment.<\/p>\n The Department of Homeless Services has slowly absorbed remaining migrants into the city-run shelter system, which as of last week was caring for 92,000 residents, including 35,400 migrants.<\/p>\n \u201cThree years ago, thousands of\u00a0migrants\u00a0and asylum seekers began streaming into our city every week \u2014 and the Adams administration stepped up,\u201d the mayor said Friday. \u00a0<\/p>\n One of the junk filled rooms at The Row Hotel after it became a migrant shelter. Dennis A. Clark<\/p>\n \u201cWe opened hundreds of emergency\u00a0migrant\u00a0shelters to ensure no family slept on the street. Since then, we have successfully helped more than 200,000\u00a0migrants\u00a0leave our shelter system and take the next step toward self-sufficiency, the\u00a0migrant\u00a0population in our care continues to decline, and we have closed 64 emergency\u00a0migrant\u00a0sites, including all of our tent-based facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have skillfully and humanely managed a national humanitarian crisis \u2014 and have done what no other city could do,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the end of an error. 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