A controversial Manhattan hotel being used to shelter migrants is set to close. The Roosevelt Hotel became an emblem of New York City’s fraught effort to manage thousands of international migrants who have flooded into the city in recent years.

New York City's main migrant shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan will shut down, Mayor Eric Adams announced.

Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday that the hotel will stop housing migrants by June, calling the closure a milestone in New York City’s response to the crisis.

NYC's Roosevelt Hotel intake center and shelter, which has served as a support center and temporary housing for more than 173,000 asylum seekers since May 2023, is closing.

Other migrant shelter closures may open up their own development opportunities. The 3,000-person facility at 47 Hall St. in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, expected to close by June, is being eyed by developer RXR Realty as the future site of a mixed-use campus with more than 600 apartments.

The site opened in May 2023, during the height of the asylum-seeker crisis, when the city received an average of 4,000 new arrivals each week.

The migrant shelter at Midtown’s Roosevelt Hotel will be shutting down in the coming months, Mayor Adams announced Monday. The center, which opened in May 2023, has served as the main arrival center for migrants coming to the city as well as those seeking new shelter placement.