New: NYPD and city sanitation workers are dismantling the collection of tents for asylum-seekers under the BQE.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.An encampment for asylum-seekers under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn is no more.
The scene earlier this week under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn, where migrants kicked out of a nearby shelter for asylum seekers created a makeshift encampment. City sanitation workers and the NYPD dismantled the encampment Friday morning.Some of the encampment's occupants – who were all men – told Gothamist earlier this week that they had been asked to leave a nearby shelter, where they had complained about conditions.
The removal comes on the heels of a new campaign by Mayor Eric Adams and his administration to discourage migrants at the southern border from seeking refuge in New York City. At once, the city announced a new policy requiring some migrants toThe city’s shelter population has topped 103,000, including more than 53,000 migrants who have arrived since the spring of last year.
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