Another emergency migrant shelter was shuttered Monday amid fire safety concerns — the latest in a string of Big Apple sites deemed to be potential fire traps.
Dozens of asylum seekers, many of them loaded down with luggage, were kicked out of the former Touro University campus near Penn Station in Manhattan as city fire officials slapped a vacate order on the window and told the migrants they had to clear out.
FDNY officials said 110 migrants had been loaded onto city vans and shipped out by 1 p.m. — leaving about 40 stranded on the sidewalk with MetroCards and maps to shelters in Queens and elsewhere in the five boroughs.
Several migrants told The Post they were being sent back to the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, the city’s main processing center for incoming asylum seekers.
Others had no idea what came next.
“No, they have not told me where I will be going,” said Roberto, a 28-year-old Colombian migrant. “I don’t want to go far away. Here there is work. Here you can make some money.”
Others, however, weren’t shedding any tears.
“I’m not going to miss a single one of them,” said Malcolm Holmes, who works as a janitor near the site. “Every morning there’s piles of garbage out here by their scooters. I see them five days a week, driving all over the sidewalk. They’re dangerous as hell.”
On Monday, one irate migrant left the shelter, hopped on a waiting scooter and sped off on the sidewalk outside the shelter, nearly missing several pedestrians while cops looked on.
“You can see this doesn’t look like a safe place,” said Kally Anne, a visitor from Kansas City who strolled by with her daughter. “All the broken windows, the board in the windows. It looks like it’s falling apart.”
The university shelter is one of over a half dozen migrant sites in the five boroughs being cleared out amid fears that they are using hot plates, overloading electrical outlets and charging lithium batteries inside their rooms — creating a potential fire hazard.
Many of the migrants work jobs in food delivery, as evidenced by the row of scooters outside the shelter.
More than 140,000 from the US border with Mexico have been shipped to New York City since the spring of last year, with nearly 66,000 still in city care — creating an unprecedented shortage of shelter space.
The Post reported earlier this month that the city hired ex-cops and firefighters to serve as “fire wardens” at several migrant sites as concerns over fire code violations grew.
Sources later confirmed that about seven sites would be issued vacate orders, including a controversial shelter at the former St. John Villa Academy, a one-time Catholic school on Staten Island.
That shelter was cleared out last week, with locals — who had demonstrated outside the school, cheering as about 200 migrants were loaded on city Parks Department vans and carted away.
Also on the FDNY hit list is another defunct Staten Island school, the Richard H. Hungerford School.
According to sources, Mayor Eric Adams did not see eye-to-eye with the FDNY on the vacate orders.