NYC neighborhood furious over new migrant shelter - but City Hall says it's already a done deal: 'How dare you?'

Residents in a Bronx neighborhood express strong opposition to plans for a 2,200-bed migrant men's shelter set to open in a vacant storage facility. Community members, including local business owners, voiced fears over safety and the rushed decision-making process, feeling sidelined by city officials who considered it a "done deal." Despite these objections, the city is moving forward with plans to retrofit the building at considerable expense while managing a surge of migrants needing housing, amid claims of declining numbers of new asylum seekers in the area.

"I have never been afraid in the South Bronx. I am now terrified," a local merchant told city officials at a raucous Bronx Community Board 1 meeting on the plan Monday.

"Without our vote you guys are making decisions for this community, without our input," another irate local told the deputy mayor at the Community Board 1 meeting.

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