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. We have three rooms for the five of us. Comfortable beds, a private bathroom," he said in Spanish, marveling at the contrast between the hard cots they slept on in their single room in the airport tent camp since arriving in the country in October.
Venezuelan migrant Gabriel Montillas said he now spends hours each day in transit, chaperoning his three young children to school in Brooklyn and rushing to make appointments after his family was recently moved from the now-closed Floyd Bennett Field encampment to a hotel in Queens. "If it were summer or something without such cold weather, it'd be different," he said, reflecting on the challenges of relocating during winter.
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