By Michael Gartland | New York Daily News
New York — The administration of New York City Mayor Eric Adams is considering housing migrants in pre-fab housing and shipping containers on city streets, using Fort Dix in New Jersey, the Citi Field parking lot and renting out several defunct hospitals and psychiatric facilities upstate and on Long Island, according to a source with direct knowledge of the proposals.
The ideas — which have never been revealed to the public before — are part of the “throwing-spaghetti-at-the-wall” process that’s yielded thousands of potential stop gaps, according to the source, who would only speak to the Daily News under condition of anonymity so they can speak freely about the suggested ideas.
“These are ideas. These have not been fleshed out,” the source said. “A lot of these probably won’t come to fruition.”
The city’s working list of potential shelter solutions has been evolving for months and now includes about 3,000 possibilities, the source added.
Among those that could be used within city limits are the Park Slope Armory, Medgar Evers College, York College, the parking lots at Citi Field and Aqueduct Racetrack, Flushing Meadows Corona Park and even city streets, which would be closed off to traffic and potentially filled with pre-fabricated housing, tents or converted shipping containers.
“Being on the street bed would provide access to water, sewer and electricity and could then support trailers or modular homes,” the source said, adding that the city isn’t considering any specific streets for this presently.
Using trailers, pre-fabs and converted containers is also being considered for use in parking lots at Citi Field and Aqueduct.
Options for outside the city include currently out-of-use facilities at the Pilgrim and Kings Park Psychiatric Centers on Long Island, the Rockland Psychiatric Center, medical facilities in Buffalo, as well as Fort Dix in New Jersey.
Using a federally run location like Fort…
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