The Roosevelt Hotel site will most likely be sold by Pakistan International Airlines for a new office tower, sources said, despite recent chatter to the contrary. The city emptied migrants from the… ...

The Roosevelt Hotel, which was converted into a migrant shelter and processing center, is set to close after nearly two years of operation. The city originally signed a $220 million contract to ...

The Roosevelt Hotel migrant shelter is set to close Tuesday – three years after it opened and quickly became a symbol of the city’s migrant crisis in the heart of Manhattan.

The Roosevelt opened in 1924 and has more than 1,000 rooms. In its heyday, the hotel was known for its in-house band, which was led by jazz great Guy Lombardo. It also served as New York Gov ...

FEMA seized funds over Roosevelt Hotel concerns, feds say Weeks after Mr. Trump took office in January, the federal government seized $80 million in FEMA funds New York City received to house ...

The Roosevelt’s closing is just the latest turn in the storied hotel's 100-year history. The establishment, as Gothamist reported in 2015, was built in 1924 at the cost of $12 million, and ...

The Roosevelt opened in 1924 and has more than 1,000 rooms. In its heyday, the hotel was known for its in-house band, which was led by jazz great Guy Lombardo.

City officials and migrant advocates said closing the Roosevelt is a milestone, but not the end of their mission. People walk in and out of The Roosevelt Hotel in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025.

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 25, 2025, Section A, Page 16 of the New York edition with the headline: Roosevelt Hotel Shelter, a Symbol of New York’s Migrant Crisis, Will Close.

Migrants are pictured outside the Roosevelt Hotel in September 2023. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News) There are fewer than 45,000 asylum seekers in the shelter system, down from a high of ...

At its peak, the Roosevelt Hotel was processing some 4,000 asylum seekers each week, a number that dropped to around 350 per week in recent months. Changed federal immigration policies have helped ...