Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is adding two new permanent, large scale shelters to its growing group of roughly 180 emergency centers across New York City housing over 54,000 homeless migrants. 

Starting Tuesday, the Crowne Plaza JFK Airport will change from being a short-term respite center to a humanitarian relief facility and house more than 330 families with children seeking asylum.

In the coming weeks, another short-term emergency site in Brooklyn will be converted to serve as a relief center to support an estimated 1,400 adults.

“New York City continues to receive thousands of asylum seekers each week, and we continue to do everything in our power to respond accordingly, but we are still in dire need of assistance from our state and federal partners,” said Adams. “NYC is doing more than any other city or state to respond to this crisis, but we need others to step up and do their part as well.”

Since the humanitarian crisis began last year, the city continues to scramble to house incoming asylum seekers by creating a network of emergency shelters including 12 other large-scale humanitarian relief centers.

“These two new sites will enable us to serve hundreds of families with children as well as adults as they settle in New York City or move to their final destination,” said Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom. “As we continue to respond to this humanitarian crisis, we again call on the federal government to advance work authorizations for people seeking asylum and for the federal government to lead this humanitarian crisis with a national coordination strategy.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.