Shuffle to Brooklyn Cruise Terminal Makes Jobs Harder to Find and Keep, Say Asylum Seekers
Migrants have refused to move from the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen, some citing the long commute and destabilizing transfers as detrimental to their efforts to start a new life in NYC.
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Isaac, a 21-year-old from Venezuela, had been staying at the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen in an emergency shelter for asylum-seekers for about a month and a half — until Sunday. That’s when the hotel management handed him a slip of paper saying he would have to leave that night.
At around 11 p.m. Sunday, Isaac said, he and other hotel residents were escorted to an MTA bus, and informed it would take them to a new place to stay. That place turned out to be the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn — where Mayor Eric Adams had announced his administration would be providing shelter to migrants, with men from the Watson Hotel the first to arrive.