A developer could tear down the antiquated hotel to build a skyscraper of up to 1.8 million square feet on the roughly 42,000 square-foot parcel, according to sources.
A Manhattan federal judge says the Federal Emergency Management Agency doesn't have to immediately return more than $80 million for sheltering migrants that it took away from New York City last month.
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.
The Roosevelt Hotel, which has roughly 1,000 rooms, first transformed into a migrant welcoming center and shelter in May 2023.
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.
A Biden-appointed judge said the city hasn't lodged a strong case for irreparable harm without an emergency order directing the federal government to return funding for migrant shelters.
The center, which opened in May 2023, serves as the main arrival center for migrants coming to the city as well as those seeking new shelter placement. It is likely to shutter in late April at the
The massive Roosevelt Hotel migrant shelter in Manhattan will shut down in the next few months, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday.
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 Roosevelt Hotel, which has been open for nearly two years as a main intake center for migrants, is set to close in the coming months, according to Mayor Eric Adams.
The Roosevelt Inn in Northeast Philadelphia has changed hands. The 105-room motel has sold for $5.35 million, according to property records. The sale breaks down to $50,952 per key. Sale prices listed in property records do not always include the additional cost incurred by a buyer for a hotel’s furniture, fixtures and equipment, or FF&E.