NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — New York City is preparing an unused hangar at John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens to house asylum seekers.
The city plans to house up to 1,000 people in Building 197, but officials are currently waiting on Federal Aviation Administration approval.
Municipal workers are already moving cots and trailers with showers and bathrooms in them to the location, news outlet The City reported Friday.
The hangar was previously used as an overflow facility for the U.S. Postal Service.
The decision to convert the building into a refugee camp, dubbed “respite centers” by Mayor Eric Adams, comes as New York City scrambles to house newly-arrived asylum seekers.
On Thursday, the city announced the defunct jail Lincoln Correctional Facility in Harlem will be used to house 500 migrants.
At least seven similar camps across New York City are currently housing more than 45,000 people, according to the mayor.
As of Friday, 72,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started sending buses of asylum seekers in the summer of 2022, the New York Post reported.
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