The city is closing one migrant relief center and opening two others Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday.
The Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center – or HERC – at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook will close at the end of March, just two months after it opened. The facility will transition back to normal operations ahead of the cruise season, “as always planned,” the mayor’s statement said.
Asylum seekers at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal location will be provided with bus transportation to the two new facilities in Bushwick, Brooklyn and Midtown, Manhattan. The massive shelter in Red Hook, which some migrants and advocates called “inhumane” had the capacity to hold 1,000 people. Together, the new sites, also congregate shelters, will serve 1,200 single adult men.
