First migrant families facing eviction as NYC 60 day shelter limit arrives

At least 40 migrant families are getting booted from a Big Apple hotel as the city’s 60 day shelter limit runs out — with some unsure where they will find new beds. “We don’t have a place to go,” Coumba Snow, a 23 year old migrant from Senegal, said outside The Row Hotel in Midtown Monday.

“My husband doesn’t have a job, I don’t have a job and we have a 5 month old baby. “We don’t have any money to rent our own room.” The Row migrants, who are scheduled to be kicked out on Tuesday morning, are among the first of about 4,800 asylum seekers with kids citywide who will have to re apply for spots as the deadline looms in the coming days — with new arrivals getting first crack at the choicest taxpayer funded shelter spots.

“I have to leave on Saturday,” Peruvian migrant Keyla Cornejo, 34, told The Post at the hotel. “I’m sad because I love this place. We have everything we need and it’s easy for my daughter to go to school. “I’m afraid if we move too far away we will have to change my daughter’s school and she will miss her friends,” Cornejo said.

“I am moving our things into storage before Saturday because we don’t know what will happen or where we’ll go next.” Migrants at the hotel said the evictions began last week — among them Luisa Golindano, who spent three nights at the crowded Roosevelt Hotel with her 2 and 4 year old children and their dad after being evicted Wednesday before they were all moved to a new shelter in Brooklyn.

“I already want to leave there because it’s cold and the children have become sick,” she said. “It’s still under construction. It smells like paint, the rooms don’t have proper ceilings and it’s cold.” The controversial decree gives single migrants 30 days before they have to re apply for a shelter spot and 60 days for those with children — with those who were due to run out of time over the Christmas holidays given a few extra days to pack up.

At a briefing on Monday, Adams defended the shelter limit. “I think that anyone who believes that this administration will create an environment [in] which children and families will sleep on the streets, they are not hearing our messages over and over again,” the mayor told reporters. “This is not going to be a city where we are going to place where families on the street and have them sleep on the street.

That is not going to happen.” He said 57% of those who entered the shelter system “we’ve been able to normalize and stabilize.” City officials said efforts would also be made to relocate migrant children near their current schools. “This past weekend we had a very concerted effort to talk to the families one more time to document what school your children are in,” city Health and Hospitals vice president Ted Long said.

“If your child is in elementary school, you’re the highest priority for us to immediately, quickly give you another placement in Manhattan, preferably close to where your child is in school.” However, Adams’ controversial deadlines are getting pushback. “Evicting families out of warm shelters into the freezing cold for no reason and displacing kids from the public schools which have become one of the few places of stability for months … is needlessly one of the most cruel things I have seen in the government of the city of New York in decades,” city Comptroller Brad Lander said at a rally in Foley Square calling for an end to the rule.

“There’s no need to do it,” he added. “The budget is in balance ’til June, so at the bare minimum let the kids stay in school until the end of the school year and let families stay where they are still warm.” Adrienne Holder, chief attorney of civil practice for the Legal Aid Society, said Adams’ shelter limit could ultimately have dire circumstances for the migrants.

“The city should know — and I hope that they do know — that what they are proposing is going to cause death,” Holder said. “What they are proposing is going to cause a lot of stress to families. Some aren’t going to be able to make it.” Nearly 70,000 migrants are in city shelters, among the more than 162,000 who have arrived in the Big Apple from the US’ southern border since the spring of 2022, many sent on buses by Texas Gov.

Greg Abbott..