Overview

• The Roosevelt Hotel, which registered over 173,000 migrants since May 2023, ceased intake operations on June 24.
• Registration, legal assistance and medical care functions have been moved into other shelters within the city’s network.
• New migrant arrivals have plunged to under 100 per week after peaking at 4,000 weekly in early 2024.
• Citywide shelter numbers have fallen to about 37,000 migrants housed across 170 sites, down from nearly 70,000 at the height of the surge.
• The closure is part of a planned wind-down of 53 sites and follows FEMA’s retrieval of $80 million over security concerns at the hotel.