City will send migrant families to flood-prone, far-off tents
The Adams administration announced plans to send newly arrived families seeking shelter to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, while those already in shelters will get 60-day eviction notices.
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Mayor Eric Adams announced two striking policy shifts for migrant families with children on Monday afternoon, in his latest attempt to get people to leave city shelters and discourage new arrivals from coming into them.
City Hall said it would begin distributing notices to families with children telling them they had to leave and reapply for shelter after 60 days, while families with children entering the system would be sent to a cavernous tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn when it opens in the coming weeks. Until now, migrant families with children have been placed in individual hotel rooms spread out across the city.