REPORT: Thousands of illegal aliens still living at NYC’s historic hotel — despite ticking clock for shelter to close

May 8, 2025

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From the New York Post: 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.

The report notes that the NYC City Hall won’t give an exact date on when all the illegal aliens will be out of the Roosevelt Hotel, only vaguely saying it will be sometime in June. The hotel is just one of 171 locations still being used to house illegal aliens in New York City.

One of the Venezuelans staying in the hotel said, “They offered to send us to other states, one was somewhere near the border with Canada, but I don’t want to go. I don’t think I’ll be able to find work there.”