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Hundreds of recently-arrived immigrant families with children have been subject to 28-day limits on hotel shelter stays in recent months, as the city insists it’s run out of space to lodge them.
The Adams administration announced plans to send newly arrived families seeking shelter to Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, while those already in shelters will get 60-day eviction notices.
The new rules, officials say, aim to cajole recent arrivals to find new accommodations and mirror a policy that requires single adults migrants city shelters to reapply for their housing every 30 days.
A suit filed by local lawmakers to stop the city from erecting a mega-migrant shelter at Floyd Bennett Field was sent back to state court Friday by a federal judge.
On Tuesday, an electric airplane stopped at Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport near Glens Falls. The plane is one of two current prototypes by a Vermont-based aviation company looking to bring more electric power to their industry.