NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that the city will soon open another Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center to provide a variety of services to more than 500 immigrant families with children who are still arriving in the city.
The center, which will be the 12th of its kind and will be on Third Avenue in Manhattan, will provide new arrivals with a place to stay, as well as support services and help getting to their final destination, if they do not seek to stay in New York, he said in a statement.
According to the mayor, more than 81,200 people have arrived in New York since the spring of last year, of which more than 50,000 are under the care of the city in shelters, hotels and other facilities that the authorities have opened to serve them and ” thousands continue to arrive every week.
Adams reiterated that “New York City continues to do more than any other city or level of government to address this national crisis.”
“We continue to meet the needs of the people who are arriving, but as the number continues to grow, we urgently need the support of the federal government,” he insisted.
The arrival of thousands of immigrants, some sent on buses by the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, and others who arrived through airports on their own initiative or with the help of NGOs, led the mayor to decree a state of emergency.
The mayor recalled that the humanitarian crisis caused by the continuous flow of immigrants since August 2022 has led the city to open 175 emergency shelters, including eleven humanitarian aid centers and other facilities to connect them with city resources and to enroll children in the public school network.
