STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A former Staten Island school remained an emergency shelter for migrants Wednesday as city officials shuttered similar operations in other parts of the city.
A spokesman for Assemblyman Sam Pirozzolo (R-Mid-Island) said that the former Tompkins Avenue location of the Hungerford School in Clifton is now housing 300 people.
A City Hall spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment about the Tompkins Avenue operation, but other elected officials around the five boroughs shared information about the end of similar migrant housing efforts in their districts.
City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (R-Queens) tweeted a statement saying a hotel in her district housing single men had been shuttered for migrant families with most of the former residents being transferred to an unspecified facility on Staten Island.
City Councilman Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn) tweeted that migrants being housed at PS 188 in Coney Island would be moved out, and that the site would no longer be used as a temporary shelter. It had been set up at an active school where parents and community protested its use.
In addition to the temporary shelter at the former Hungerford School, which moved to the Michael J. Petrides Educational Complex last year, the city has set up emergency shelters at at least four hotels on the Island.
The Advance/SILive.com published an opinion piece from Pirozzolo on Tuesday, titled “We’re supporting migrants while ignoring our own,” in which the assemblyman juxtaposed the city’s efforts to house migrants with the death of Jordan Neely.
A former marine, Daniel Penny, allegedly killed Neely after placing him in a chokehold May 1 on a Manhattan Subway. Penny has been charged with 2nd-degree manslaughter in relation to Neely’s death. Witnesses have said that Neely, a homeless man, began shouting that he was thirsty and hungry before Penny placed him in the chokehold.
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