The last running hotel-turned-migrant shelter in New York City is set to close in April.

The Row Hotel, which was also the first to be converted into a migrant shelter in 2022, is located a block away from Times Square. Housing migrants in the luxury property’s 1,300 units costs the city $5.13 million a month.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday that the city would not renew its contract with Rockpoint Group, which owns the establishment.

He called the closure a “major milestone in our administration’s recovery from this international humanitarian crisis,” in a statement to the Washington Examiner.

“Three years ago, thousands of migrants and asylum seekers began streaming into our city every week — and the Adams administration stepped up.”

“We opened hundreds of emergency migrant shelters to ensure no family slept on the street. Since then, we have successfully helped more than 200,000 migrants leave our shelter system and take the next step toward self-sufficiency,” Adams continued.

At its peak, New York City was running 220 migrant shelters. In 2024, 80% of its 193 operating shelters were former hotels.

“We have skillfully and humanely managed a national humanitarian crisis — and have done what no other city could do,” he added.

The Row has become a hotspot for crime and chaos, with numerous recorded incidents of attacks against NYPD officers by residents who are members of the Tren de Aragua gang.

City residents are celebrating the closure and the end of mass sheltering.

“Hallelujah. I’m happy that it’s happening,” said a resident of The Camelot apartment complex across the street. “We pay a lot of money to live here, and it doesn’t seem fair.”

“There are people sitting here all day, littering, leaving food waste, water bottles,” the resident said. “A lot of them have children, and there are women sitting around here smoking weed all day, the children are just playing on the street, on the bike lanes.”

One security guard said he started wearing a wedding ring because he’s been propositioned twice by migrant prostitutes staying at the hotel.

The closures come as President Donald Trump’s immigration policies have reduced illegal border crossings by over 99%. CNN recently predicted the United States will reach negative net migration in 2025, for the first time in 50 years.

The 3,400 current residents of the Row will be moved to the city’s traditional shelter system, according to the New York Times.

A spokesman for the mayor’s office noted that the city government has also “purchased more than 65,000 tickets to help migrants exit the shelter system and reach their preferred destinations.”

The mayor’s office also noted that of the migrants already in New York, 110,000 asylum applications have been processed so far, accounting for over 90% of those eligible.

That levels out to $3950 a unit, a few hundred dollars above the average monthly rate for a single room in NYC.

A group of ex-national security officials is protesting the Trump administration’s recent removal of high-level intelligence officers as “a purge.”

In an open letter published Saturday, the group, which calls itself “The Steady State,” condemned the Trump administration’s decision to fire three FBI officials: former Acting Director Brian Driscoll and Special Agents Walter Giardina and Michael Feinberg. The signatories said the removal of these agents appeared “part of a broader campaign to dismantle the FBI’s long-standing independence and recast it as a tool of political loyalty.”

The letter continued by denouncing the move as “a purge” of officials whose views expressed “perceived personal disloyalty to former President Donald Trump.”

The Steady State is a group of hundreds of former intelligence, defense policy, diplomacy, law enforcement, and Congressional workers that claims to be nonpartisan, although recent statements by the group’s Executive Director, Steven Cash, show an anti-Trump lean.

Speaking about the recent revelations about the Trump-Russia collusion allegations, Cash said in an interview that, “A lot of documents have been released, but it doesn’t appear to be anything there that makes sense.” Cash continued by calling the renewal of the Trump administration’s efforts to uncover the truth about the Russiagate conspiracy evidence of  “a democracy sliding into an autocracy.”

Critics have called the removal of Driscoll, Giardina, and Feinberg politically motivated. Although no official reason has been released, analysts have pointed out that these officials may have acted against the commands of the Commander in Chief, among other things.

According to MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian, Driscoll’s ouster was directly related to his refusal to carry out an order from then Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to compile a list of all agents involved in investigating cases related to January 6th.

Similarly, analysts have connected Giardina’s firing to his involvement in the investigation of former Trump trade official Peter Navarro, who Trump often said was “treated horribly by the Deep State.”

Feinberg retired, he claimed, at the threat of the Trump administration, which was probing his relationship with Peter Strzok, the lead FBI agent who investigated President Trump’s connection with Russia before revelations of extreme anti-Trump rhetoric with subordinates.

The current director of the FBI, Kash Patel, wrote a letter to Giardina explaining his firing.

“This document provides official notice that you are being summarily dismissed from your position at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and removed from the federal service, under my authority as the FBI Director, effective immediately,” Patel wrote. “You have exercised poor judgment and a lack of impartiality in carrying out duties, leading to the political weaponization of the government.”

The Steady State’s letter also singled out Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, who they claim are “unqualified political loyalists.”

Referring to Bongino and Patel’s appointments, The Steady State said, “The aim, it seems, is to transform the FBI from a respected, constitutionally grounded investigative service into a personal enforcement arm of a political figure.”