Since early October, an ecosystem of barbers, vendors and chefs has sprung up outside one of the city’s largest migrant shelters at Randall’s Island Athletic Field 83.
Tag: Randalls Island (Manhattan, NY)
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The Latest Migrant Battleground: NYC Soccer Fields
Mayor Eric Adams has urged New Yorkers to join him in raising their voices about the migrant crisis. More of them are — against him.
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Migrants Search for Jobs in NYC’s Underground Labor Market
Faced with lengthy bureaucratic delays, tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants are slipping into the city’s underground economy and joining its army of undocumented workers.
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NYC Moves Migrants From a Tent to a Hotel as Cold Weather Arrives
The city is dismantling an emergency shelter on Randalls Island, so dozens of homeless men moved on Monday, headed for a Manhattan hotel.
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Eric Adams Says Migrant Shelter on Randalls Island Will Close
Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday that the city would take down the 84,400-square-foot facility and reopen a new migrant center in Midtown Manhattan.