More than 223,000 migrants have poured into New York City since the asylum seeker crisis first erupted — now double Albany’s entire population.
The staggering number of asylum seeker arrivals also now equates to about half the number of people who live on Staten Island (490,687) and roughly 15% of Manhattan’s residential population (1.6 million), according to the latest US Census data.
“Over the past two years, our teams have accomplished the Herculean task of providing compassionate care for a population twice the size of Albany and saving taxpayers billions of dollars,” Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement on Monday referencing the latest figures.
Of the tens of thousands of migrants that have flooded the Big Apple since April 2022, more than 58,000 are still being cared for on the taxpayer’s dime, the latest figures from City Hall show.
In the week ending Nov. 10, more than 600 new asylum seekers arrived in Gotham to be put up in one of the 210 city-run shelter sites scattered across the five boroughs, per the figures.
It is down from the roughly 4,000 new migrant arrivals that were flooding the city on a weekly basis back in January.
Still, despite the number of new arrivals drastically slowing in recent months, the total shelter population hasn’t dropped as considerably, according to the city’s data.
Hizzoner, meanwhile, also touted that Big Apple officials have so far helped push through more than 84,000 applications for migrant work authorization and temporary protected status.
He boasted, too, that the migrant population currently in the city’s care had been on the decline for 19 consecutive weeks.
“The city has also purchased over 47,000 tickets to help migrants reach their preferred destinations and help reduce long-term costs for New York City taxpayers,” he said.
