Last migrant shelter in the city to close by the end of the year
The Bruckner Boulevard site currently houses about 1,950 people. All of them will be moved into city shelters run by the Department of Social Services.
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The migrant shelter on Bruckner Boulevard is expected to close as part of an action plan by Mayor Zohran Mamdani by the end of 2026 in effort to bring the city's shelter system back into compliance — after emergency rules were put in place during the migrant crisis.
The Bruckner Boulevard site currently houses about 1,950 people. All of them will be moved into city shelters run by the Department of Social Services.
City officials say the plan also includes reducing overcrowding in single-adult shelters, bringing facilities back to a 200-bed limit, and moving families out of hotels and into compliant shelters.
Officials say new shelters will open in the coming months and existing capacity will be reallocated, including converting some hotel rooms currently used for families into shelter space for single adult men.
The goal is to bring all shelters back into legal compliance by the end of 2027 without destabilizing the system.
Sources in the Department of Social Services say the city is still determining long term plans for the Bruckner facility.
News 12 is told the agency will be working in close coordination with partners to ensure they are facilitating transfers and making suitable accommodations for each household as they gradually phase out the use of the Bruckner Boulevard site.
