Overview

• Row NYC was converted in October 2022 into a 1,331-room emergency shelter and now stands as the last hotel under the city’s migrant housing contract.
• Its closure brings to an end the hotel-based network that once encompassed 220 sites at the height of the crisis.
• City officials report having closed 64 emergency locations since spring 2022 and aided over 200,000 migrants in exiting the emergency shelter system.
• Remaining residents are being transferred into the New York City Department of Homeless Services’ regular shelter program under the right-to-shelter law.
• Weekly asylum seeker arrivals have fallen below 100, easing pressure after more than $8 billion was spent on emergency housing since spring 2022.