The Row hotel will no longer be used to house homeless asylum-seekers, the Adams administration said, citing a reduction in new arrivals. Back in 2022, it was the first hotel to be converted to a migrant shelter and now will be the final such shelter to close.

11 Aug 2025 | 07:35

City officials will not be renewing a lease that converted The Row, a hotel in Times Square, into a shelter at the height of the asylum-seeker influx that saw NYC’s population of newly-arrived immigrants surge two years ago.

The exact shutdown date was not revealed for the 1,300 room hotel, but the lease...