The last of the roughly 2,000 people living on a windswept tarmac at Floyd Bennett Field, once the city's first airport, departed the gated encampment over the weekend.
Jehinzo Gonzalez, a 47-year-old from Venezuela, said he, his wife and three sons were transferred to another nearby city-run shelter just a week before Christmas. 'It's a more dignified place for the family...'
New York City has seen more than 250,000 migrants arrive since the spring of 2022, but the numbers of new arrivals have declined for 27 straight weeks and is now at its lowest point in more than a year.
Roughly 50,000 migrants are currently being housed across roughly 200 temporary sites, down from nearly 70,000 migrants last January.
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