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FILE - Members of the Goya family wait for a ride, with their belongings, in front of the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New York City closes arrival center for migrants in once-grand Manhattan hotel

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

Kassi Keith walks her laundry from the hotel she lives at to the neighborhood laundromat, Wednesday, March 8, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Around Manhattan and elsewhere in the city, hotels that served tourists just a few years ago have become de facto emergency shelters. The latest is the historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, which shuttered three years ago, is reopening later this week as a welcome center and shelter for asylum seekers. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NYC converts hotels to shelters as pressure mounts to accommodate asylum seekers

By Deepti Hajela and Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press