NYC to Use Cruise Ship Terminal as Asylum-Seeker Shelter

NYC to Use Cruise Ship Terminal as Asylum-Seeker Shelter
The Manhattan skyline behind the parking lot and terminal of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in New York on April 2, 2020. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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NEW YORK—New York City is temporarily turning a cruise ship terminal into a shelter and services hub for asylum-seekers, Mayor Eric Adams said Saturday, announcing the latest in a series of facilities the city has set up—and sometimes shut down—as it strains to handle an ongoing influx.

The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will have room, food, medical care and other services for 1,000 single men until it reverts to the cruise business in springtime, the mayor’s office said in a release. Its first occupants will move from another relief center at a hotel, which will switch to accommodating asylum-seeking families with children.