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RANDALL’S ISLAND MIGRANT SHELTER TO COST NY TAXPAYERS $20M A MONTH — OR $10K FOR
EVERY MIGRANT: SOURCE

By Bernadette Hogan and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

August 13, 2023 | 3:47pm

New York taxpayers will dole out $20 million a month to house migrants on
Randall’s Island, according to a state source — or $10,000 per asylum-seeker if
the site fills all of its 2,000 beds.


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The makeshift facility off Manhattan is one of four migrant housing sites fully
funded by the state as part of a desperate effort to keep up with the flood of
migrants who have New York City at its breaking point.

A well-placed source with the state told The Post over the weekend that the
state is providing $20 million a month to run the Randall’s center.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that the migrant crunch in
the Big Apple is expected to cost an overall whopping $12 billion for the next
three years.

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“We are past our breaking point,” Adams said during a City Hall briefing
Wednesday. “With more than 57,300 individuals currently in our care on an
average night, it amounts to $9.8 million a day, almost $300 million a month and
nearly $3.6 billion a year.”

A new migrant shelter on Randall’s Island will house up to 2,000 asylum-seekers
— but at a hefty price. The mega-shelter on Randall’s Island will cost state
taxpayers an estimated $20 million a month.Stephen Yang

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The cost of the Randall’s Island migrant shelter works out to $10,000 per
migrant a month if the 2,000-bed facility reaches capacity. Gov. Kathy Hochul
has been struggling to cope with the flood of migrants into the state.Stefan
Jeremiah New York City has seen 100,000 migrants from the US border flock into
the Big Apple since spring 2022, leaving the Big Apple at “the breaking point,”
Mayor Eric Adams has said. Stephen Yang

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About 100,000 men, women and children seeking asylum have arrived in New York
City since the spring of 2022, with more than 57,000 currently staying in 198
emergency shelters in the five boroughs.

The unprecedented influx has spilled out onto the streets of Manhattan, where
scores of migrants were forced two weeks ago to sleep outside the Roosevelt
Hotel in Midtown, which was set up as a processing center.

But the move to put migrant men on some of Randall’s Island’s soccer fields has
incensed the local sports community — including even one of Adams’ own
commissioners, who spoke out against it.

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Vilda Vera Mayuga, head of the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker
Protection, circulated petitions to block the use of youth soccer fields for the
mega-shelter facility.

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Meanwhile, Hochul had promised to add Floyd Bennett Field, a former military
airbase in Brooklyn, to the list of state-funded shelters — but White House
officials refused to sign off on the plan Sunday, dealing her a major blow.

The feds said the plan for the field needs a closer review.


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