Nearly 2K migrants still housed in NYCs historic Roosevelt Hotel despite city saying it will shutter the shelter next month

When does it end?Nearly 2,000 migrants are still being housed in the historic Roosevelt Hotel — despite the city insisting the makeshift shelter will be shuttering next month.The 100-year-old landmark in Midtown became a symbol of the Big Apple’s migrant crisis as it became the intake center for the more than 230,000 asylum seekers from the US border who flocked to the five boroughs since 2022.As many as 2,900 people were also housed there on taxpayer dime at the peak of the crisis, and the number of residents has only dwindled to around 1,800 as of Wednesday.That’s even as Mayor Eric Adams has all but declared the migrant crisis over in February, when he announced the hotel’s impeding closure.Sources said at the time the hotel-turned-shelter would be empty by June.But City Hall continues to be vague on just when the Roosevelt will be shut down as a shelter — saying on Wednesday only that the transition should happen sometime in June.People being housed at the hotel told The Post they have been offered help to get out of the state, but haven’t been given a date by which they have to pack up and leave, causing confusion and anguish.“It’s in God’s hands,” Sandra, a 34-year-old Venezuelan migrant, said Wednesday.

“I don’t know what will happen to me next.My hope is that I can find a job and not rely on anyone for housing and work.”Juan Gabriel, 22, also from Venezuela, said he’s unsure when or where he’ll have to move.“They offered to send us to other states, one was somewhere near the border with Canada, but I don’t want to go,” he said.

“I don’t think I’ll be able to find work there.”The hotel at 45 East 45th Street is one of 171 sites still used as shelters for the asylum seekers, whose numbers are dwindling as President Trump’s immigration policies slow the flow of migrants into the country.The dip in new arrivals has prompted the Adams administration to close the massive tent encampments at Randall’s Island and Bro...