Put Migrants In NYC Jail Where Jeffrey Epstein Died, City Suggests

NEW YORK CITY — The city suggested housing incoming asylum seekers in the bleak Manhattan prison building where Jeffrey Epstein died by apparent suicide, according to city records and reports.

Mayor Eric Adams' attorney included the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan among a list of migrant housing options sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul's office earlier this month.

"The City also urges the federal government to permit the City and/or State to accommodate New Arrivals on federal property," Daniel Perez wrote in his letter, dated Aug. 9.

Number three on the list:

"Closed correctional and transitional sites such as Metropolitan Correctional Center."

Other options include Floyd Bennet field, Fort Dix and vacant veteran affairs hospitals.

The New York Daily News was first to report the suggestion, having obtained Perez’s letter through a Freedom of Information Law request.

Neither the federal Bureau of Prisons nor a City Hall spokesperson provided the Daily News with comment.

The jail — closed in 2021 for conditions that included vermin, poor heating, unsanitary plumbing — is where Epstein, facing child sex trafficking charges, died.

The pitch arrived as New York City grapples both with an influx of asylum seekers — 70 percent of whom are families with kids — and criticism over its response.

Civil rights attorney Andrew Laufer called the Adams administration's suggestion that the jail house migrants obscene and offensive, the Daily News reports.

"You’re treating them worse than prisoners," Laufer reportedly said. "That place was shuttered because the conditions were too egregious for accused criminals.”