Racetracks, Parks, Offices: A Frantic Search for Migrant Housing

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Racetracks, Parks, Offices: A Frantic Search for Migrant Housing
New York City officials are casting a wide net as they scramble to house the influx of migrants. The Flatiron Building said no.


When the real estate industry looks at the Flatiron Building, they see an internationally famous 22-story skyscraper that has sat mostly empty for four years, its value dropping in the pandemic-driven collapse of the commercial office market.

New York City officials, however, see something else: a potential home for the continuing influx of migrants.

And so they asked Jeff Gural, a Flatiron Building owner, what he thought.

Mr. Gural rejected the idea.

“There’s no bathrooms, there’s no heat, the building’s been gutted,” Mr. Gural said.

Facing an expected deluge of migrants in the coming weeks, an overburdened shelter system and an impossibly tight housing market, New York City officials are beginning to prove the adage that desperation breeds creativity.

In recent weeks, city officials have approached major landlords, business leaders, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in an effort to find spaces large enough to house substantial numbers of migrants from the southern border.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/nyregion/migrants-shelter-flatiron-nyc.html

Of the 61,000 migrants who have arrived in New York in the last year, more than half remain in city care.Credit...Juan Arredondo for The New York Times

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1. Malls

abandoned all over the place. Would be great housing options, IMO.

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2. from dead mall videos. They are moldy and dripping water from the skylights.

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3. Well, yuck

but that makes sense. What a waste.