Migrant Families Reach NYC's 60-Day Shelter Limit

NEW YORK CITY — Migrant families who’ve reached the city’s controversial 60-day limit for staying in shelters will have to start packing up starting this week.

About 40 families in The Row hotel Tuesday will be the first to be forced to reapply for shelter, officials said.

Advocates and many elected officials decried effectively kicking migrants out of shelter, at least temporarily, as inhumane — a charge that Mayor Eric Adams and other city officials denied Monday.

"This is not going to be a city where we’re going to place children and families on the street and have them sleep on the street," Adams said. "That's not going to happen."

Families who received 60-day notices have had at least four meetings so far with case management workers who are tasked with helping migrants find long-term housing, whether in the city or elsewhere, said Ted Long, senior vice president with the city’s Health + Hospitals.

Those families who don’t have any place to go can reapply for shelter, officials said.