The last standing New York City hotel sheltering homeless migrants is set to close in the coming months as the influx of migrant asylum-seekers to the city slows. The Row NYC hotel, home to 1,300 rooms throughout 28 floors and located one block from Times Square on 8th Avenue, was the first NYC hotel to be converted to a migrant shelter in 2022. 

“In the coming months, we are proud to share that we will be closing another site — the Row Hotel, the last hotel in the city’s emergency shelter system — marking yet another major milestone in our administration’s recovery from this international humanitarian crisis,” NYC Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. 

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The city repurposed the former hotel in October 2022 to help lessen the effect on homeless shelters as it dealt with an influx of migrants from the southern border. According to the New York Post, the city government initially contracted with the hotel, owned by Rockpoint Group based in Boston, for a $5.13 million per month lease. The lease expires in April, and Adams announced the city would not renew it. 

“Three years ago, thousands of migrants and asylum seekers began streaming into our city every week — and the Adams administration stepped up. We opened hundreds of emergency migrant shelters to ensure no family slept on the street. Since then, we have successfully helped more than 200,000 migrants leave our shelter system and take the next step toward self-sufficiency,” Adams’s statement continued.

Adams’s administration says it has since closed 64 emergency migrant shelters, including all tent-based shelters. The city closed the largest migrant arrival shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel in June.

The city’s Asylum Application Help Center has processed 110,000 applications for temporary protected status, work authorization, and asylum since the influx of migrants began, according to a spokesperson for the New York City mayor’s office.

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“Over 90 percent of eligible adult asylum seekers or migrants who are in the city’s care either have or have applied for work authorization thanks to the Adams administration’s efforts,” a spokesperson for the NYC mayor’s office told the Washington Examiner. The spokesperson also noted that the city government has “purchased more than 65,000 tickets to help migrants exit the shelter system and reach their preferred destinations.”