Mayor Adams is opening the door to housing migrants in more than a half dozen public schools amid overcrowding in the city’s shelter systems, prompting pushback from parents and community leaders who fear the accommodations could disrupt classes and traumatize the asylum seekers, the Daily News has learned.
As of Monday, Adams’ administration was either housing or planning to house migrants in the gymnasiums of PS 188, PS 189, PS 172, PS 17, PS 18, PS 132 and MS 577 — all of which are in Brooklyn, according to local elected officials, Community Education Council members and correspondences reviewed by The News. All of the gyms are freestanding from their respective school buildings.
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