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

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.

The Roosevelt is one of 50 New York City migrant shelters set to close due to the plunge in weekly arrivals to 350 a week from a peak of 4,000.

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.

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.

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.

New York City has announced the termination of its $220m lease agreement with the Roosevelt Hotel in the US, which has been housing asylum seekers since its reopening in 2023. This decision will lead to the closure of both the Asylum Seeker Arrival Center and the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center at the hotel.