Metro exclusive what to shop now

Hundreds of migrants to be housed in

NYPD’s former police academy building
By Larry Celona , Joe Marino , Tina Moore and Allie Griffin May 5, 2023 1:59am Updated

Love the Knicks? Get star player

Jalen Brunson's jersey from Fanatics

We found tickets for all of the Jonas

Brothers 2023 tour dates

You won't believe the prices for Taylor

Swift's Nashville concerts.

Take the leap: Save a whopping 77%

on this Jumper laptop today on
Amazon, $900 off
00:00
Meet us by the pool? Save 25% on
modular furniture sets of any size
from Transformer Table
00:00 00:57

The NYPD’s former Manhattan police academy building is being transformed into a shelter for hundreds
Trending Now
of migrants as the city struggles to house the growing number of asylum seekers entering the Big Apple, on NYPost.com
The Post has learned.
57,997
Officials with the Office of Emergency Management were spotted on Thursday night setting up rows upon
rows of green cots inside the first-floor gym of the Gramercy Park facility in preparation for an influx of up
to 500 migrants.

Four buses of migrants arrived at the ad hoc shelter at separate times early Friday morning.

One source said the living arrangements would be in place for at least a week.
Meg Ryan looks unrecognizable in
rare public appearance in NYC

48,261

Giant penis mowed into lawn at King

Charles' coronation bash site

40,375

Suspect arrested in murder of 29-year-

Migrants are seen getting off a school bus that transported them to the former police academy located at 235 East 20th ld Arizona woman found dead on
Street in New York, N.Y., on May 5, 2023. hiking trail
Christopher Sadowski

The old academy is no longer used for training, but law enforcement sources told The Post that a select
number of police bosses still use the indoor shooting range — raising security concerns among some Columnists
members of the force.
Steve Cuozzo
“This will be a security nightmare,” a Manhattan cop said. “They will have to put cops at all the doorways,
plus over a hundred cops are assigned there with lockers where they have their guns. None of these After legal weed, NYC's once-wild 4/20
people have been vetted.” party just another boring street fair

The NYPD’s Force Investigation Division, the unit that probes all incidents in which a cop uses force on
the job, still has an office inside the building on East 20th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. Michael Starr

How a retired detective snared his

seventh 'Torso Killer' confession

See All Columnists

Page Six Style

See all the Met Gala
2023 looks you may
have missed: Lizzo,
Cardi B and more

All the must-see Met

Gala 2023 afterparty
looks, from Kendall
Jenner to Rihanna

Time 100 Gala 2023

red carpet: Kim
Kardashian, Doja Cat
and more

Migrants walk in a line after getting off a school bus to head to the former police academy at 235 East 20th Street in New Now on
York, N.Y. on May 5, 2023.
Christopher Sadowski

Neighboring the nine-story building is the 13th Precinct house.

A retired cop questioned the logistics of the temporary shelter, as the showers and bathrooms are located
on different floors from where the migrants will be sleeping.

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ star Shangela

accused of rape by former HBO
staffer

Morgan Wallen gives health update

following last-second concert
cancellation

‘Selling Sunset’ alum Maya Vander is

pregnant following tragic stillbirth

See All

Video

More migrants are spotted heading to the police academy for shelter at 235 East 20th Street in New York, N.Y. on May 5,
2023.
Christopher Sadowski

“What genius came up with this idea?” the former cop said. “Doesn’t anyone think these things out?” Social media app Clapper hyped as
'TikTok for adults'
It’s not yet known where the migrants staying at the new shelter came from.

On Wednesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott shipped two busloads with 91 migrants — including 38 children
— to the city.

Police are spotted setting up cots to house the new migrants staying at the former police academy.
William C Lopez/New York Post

Another photo of the cots to house the new migrants are seen, as it is unknown where the asylum seekers come from.
William C Lopez/New York Post

Just days earlier, Mayor Eric Adams said Abbott had planned to funnel an increased number of asylum
seekers to the sanctuary city — a move the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs called “shameful.”

85 What do you think? Post a comment.

“He is using children, migrants to make political points,” said the commissioner of the office, Manuel
Castro.

Mayor Eric Adams said Gov. Abbott planned to funnel an increased number of asylum seekers to New York City.
Daniel William McKnight

More than 59,400 migrants have arrived in the Big Apple over the last year — with many handed off from
governors of red border states.

In just a four-day stretch over last week, roughly 1,100 asylum seekers entered the city between
Wednesday, April 26 and Sunday, April 30, the latest City Hall figures show.

Filed under eric adams manhattan migrants new york police academy nypd 5/5/23

Read Next MTA reverses course, will tweet out real-time transit aler...

Conversation 89 Comments 475 Viewing

Share your stance. Please adhere to our guidelines .

Sort by Best
4 View 3 new comments
4 People typing

Knight3136
4 hours ago
What happens when one or group decides to wonder around the building and find the door that
eads to someone place they are suppose to being in. Something bad is going to happen. You
have politicians such as AOC blame the NYPD and the NYPD will blame a low racking
for the mistake.
Reply 43 Share

Bruno Helvetica
1 hour ago
Just like the city official who greets each invader with a handshake as they get off the bus,
OC needs to greet each migrant as they get off the bus with a kiss. I'm sure they won't
her horse face.
Reply 17 Share

Salvatore Matagrano
4 hours ago
A lot of great people walk through those doors of the police academy, some of which gave their
protecting the people of this city. What a shame.
Reply 69 Share

Let’s go Brandon
1 hour ago
This just proves what Adams think of the police department!!!!
Reply 15 Share

TexasPatriot
4 hours ago
10K to 13K pouring into Texas towns & cities daily, but Adams whines about 200 not le gals
hat NYC has to deal with? We need to bump his share up to 10K a day too, maybe then he will
GeezerJoe to close the border.
Reply 70 Share

Bob Grant
4 hours ago
Yeah, they all expect Texas to house all of them. I don't see the "blue" States stepping up
help. Is AOC telling Adams to send them to her district?
Reply 51 Share
1 reply

Let’s go Brandon
1 hour ago
Absolutely bus thousands upon t hounds a day to NY!!! Well deserved!!!!!
Reply 7 Share

Kenny Hawk
3 hours ago
The mainstream media should stop trying to downplay the obvious illegality of this situation by
referring to these people incorrectly as "migrants." These people are not
migrants"! By having blatantly, brazenly and intentionally broken our immigration laws, they
"illegal aliens." In...
See more
Reply 43 Share
1 reply

Wowweezowee
40 minutes ago
Why is it I never heard a politician say " I'm sorry I made a mistake, I hadn't thought
ompletely through the process when I declared a past statement." I have done that plenty in
Just say it's unsustainable to be a sanctuary city and we accommodated as many as we
but we are done. That...
See more
Reply 5 Share

Scott Wakschal
3 hours ago
I feel sorry for the migrants however we have lots of homeless people living in shelters or that
re on the street Our government and our city officials take better care of the migrants than the
of New York City it's a disgrace
Reply 20 Share

Fed Up
3 hours ago
They’re not ‘migrants’, they’re invaders.
Reply 40 Share

romiller
1 minute ago
And mostly male and young and looking healthy.
Reply Share

Fed Up
4 hours ago
All military age males.
Reply 38 Share

Ogie the 2nd

4 hours ago
Mayor collard greens invited illegals hoping the federal government would send billions his
to line his and his family’s pockets.
Reply 45 Share

NYER
2 hours ago
Lol,,mayor collard greens that's funny, I'm going to have to borrow that one..lol

Reply 16 Share

J Jone
2 hours ago
Bingo, NY has been bailed out many times. Wonder what happen to the 60 billion Obuma
the for Hurricane Sandy
Reply 10 Share
Show 1 more reply

Got em
4 hours ago
Next wave of NYPD recruits.
Reply 33 Share

Dietz
2 hours ago
But NY is a sanctuary state and NYC will lead by example Cuomo said.
Still suffering from that guy.

Reply 13 Share

John Smith
4 hours ago
NYC, have you figured it out yet? This WH is out to destroy the country.
Reply 44 Share
1 reply

Looch-59
4 hours ago
Perhaps Mayor Adams should allow them to occupy his rat infested apartment building, and he
move into the now defunct Police Academy with his security team. Problem solved.
Reply 22 Share

Roy Guercio
2 hours ago
Women and children they tell us. Most of the invaders are fighting age men. We have a
hortage in recruitment in our now woke military, sign them up and ship them to the Russian

Reply 14 Share

hal09i
1 hour ago
Hey New Yorkers!

Had enough?

No?

Well, just keep voting Blue. I'm sure it will all work out...
Reply 11 Share

What I Think
3 hours ago
WTH? Why are we accommodating these people? Send them back to the countries they came
from! This is pure madness.
Reply 31 Share

Bunny10
2 hours ago
And we still have to take our shoes off to fly ✈️
Reply 16 Share

longtime resident
3 hours ago
This low IQ , empty suit adams will turn this great metropolis into Detroit in two shakes of a
tail.THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH!
Reply 30 Share

Janet
3 hours ago
Well, NYC can't get people to join the force anyway. The illegals and the radicals have taken
the city anyway.
Reply 12 Share

OpusMaximus
3 hours ago
I am surprised they have a comment section on this one.
Reply 18 Share

EliteGalaxy
1 hour ago
I moved from NYC to Texas in 2020 and my only disappointment is that Governor Abbot is not
more buses to NYC.
Reply 7 Share

Bill Pearlman
1 hour ago
The migrants cost Texas money also. And they never purported to be a sanctuary state. New
ork does. And Gramercy Park. Wealthy liberals that vote "progressive " all the way. Harvey
is the AD rep. Let him handle this.

Reply 9 Share

J Jone
2 hours ago
Thank you Governor Abbott. Watching NYC cry is priceless
Reply 8 Share

NYER
2 hours ago
They did this in Chicago police station, now thats creeping into nyc,,people are distracted by
until the citizens of NY have no say in anything.

Reply 11 Share

TBD Cobra
2 hours ago
The libs say they are doing the jobs Americans don’t want to do.

OK. Put these illegals to work picking up trash and cleaning up our cities while they await
isposition of their amnesty case. The value of the services we provide for free are worth more
minimum wage and way more than the few do... See more
Reply 9 Share

Susan Smith
2 hours ago
Millions in already and Title 42 ends next week.
Reply 7 Share

Ken undefined
41 minutes ago
How about housing them in night clubs in Manhattan. That would hit Adams close to home, as
is where he spends most of his waking hours.

Reply 6 Share
1 reply

Slippery Pete
1 hour ago
Adams Rule of Perplexity: we keep giving this group free housing, free health care, free food
nd put them up in all types of nice accomodations. Yet, they keep coming and coming. I will
putting together a blue ribbon committee to get to the bottom of this.
Reply 3 Share

Patrol Agent
22 minutes ago
And this is how the sanctuary ended? Or is this just the beginning of the end? The Soros plan is
out.
Reply 4 Share

Bruno Helvetica
2 hours ago
Ihave a love/hate relationship with this alien invader situation. I absolutely detest the fact that
iden has the border wide open destroying this country for some far into the future Democrat
gain yet on the other hand I love the grief its causing the scum who run the City and
scum ...
See more
Reply 11 Share

Crys Tal
2 hours ago
I also love how Adams deep down is not a fan of the open border but has to accept it
open borders is a value of his party
Reply 7 Share

Show More Comments

Conversation Survey

How would you rate the quality of this conversation?

Very toxic Toxic Neither Healthy Very healthy

Powered by Terms Privacy Feedback

25 People Reacted

What's your reaction to this

article?

Top Notch So-so Next!

36 11 63

More Stories
Page Six NYPost

Travis Barker buries face in Kourtney Kardashian’s Meg Ryan looks unrecognizable in rare public
thong-clad booty appearance in NYC

Sections & Features Post Sports+ Newsletters & Feeds Help/Support Apps

News Metro Subscribe Email Newsletters About New York Post iPhone App
Sports Sports Betting Articles RSS Feeds Customer Service iPad App
Business Opinion Manage NY Post Official Store Apps Help Android Phone
Entertainment Fashion & Beauty Community Guidelines Android Tablet
Home Delivery
Shopping Lifestyle
Contact Us Advertise
Real Estate Media Subscribe
Tech Health Manage Subscription Tips Self Service
Travel Astrology Newsroom Media Kit
Video Photos Delivery Help Letters to the Editor Contact
Visual Stories Alexa Reprints
Covers Horoscopes Careers
Sports Odds Podcasts Vulnerability Disclosure Program
Columnists Classifieds

© 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved Terms of Use Membership Terms Privacy Notice Sitemap
Your California Privacy Rights Do Not Sell My Personal Information