Another emergency migrant shelter was shuttered Monday amid fire safety concerns — the latest in a string of Big Apple sites deemed potential fire traps.
Dozens of asylum seekers, many of them loaded down with luggage, were kicked out of the former Touro University campus near Penn Station in Manhattan as city fire officials slapped a vacate order on the window and told the migrants they had to clear out.
FDNY officials said 110 people in migrant families were loaded onto city vans and shipped out — leaving about 40 single men stranded on the sidewalk with MetroCards and maps to other shelters in the five boroughs.
Several migrants told The Post they were being sent back to the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, the city’s main processing center for incoming asylum seekers.
Others had no idea what would come next.
“No, they have not told me where I will be going,” said Roberto, a 28-year-old Colombian migrant. “I don’t want to go far away. Here there is work. Here you can make some money.”
Members of the FDNY, Fire Marshals and NY State Fire began to close down the shelter at 320 W 31 St on Monday. Matthew McDermott
Migrants vacate the former site of Touro University. Matthew McDermott
Migrants housed at an emergency shelter at the former Touro University in Manhattan were ordered to clear out Monday as city fire officials slapped a vacate order on the window. The site is one of over a half-dozen considered fire hazards. G.N.Miller/NYPost
About 110 migrants housed at the former Touro University campus in Manhattan were loaded onto city vans — many loaded down with luggage — as FDNY officials ordered the building vacated over fire code violation concerns. G.N.Miller/NYPostOthers, however, weren’t shedding any tears.
“I’m not going to miss a single one of them,” said Malcolm Holmes, who works as a janitor near the site. “Every morning there’s piles of garbage out here by their scooters. I see them five days a week, driving all over the sidewalk. They’re dangerous as hell.”
On Monday, one irate migrant left the shelter, hopped on a waiting scooter and sped off on the sidewalk outside the shelter, just missing several pedestrians while cops looked on.
“You can see this doesn’t look like a safe place,” said Kally Anne, a visitor from Kansas City who strolled by with her daughter. “All the broken windows, the board in the windows. It looks like it’s falling apart.”
The university shelter is one of over a half-dozen migrant sites in the five boroughs being cleared out amid fears that those inside are using hot plates, overloading electrical outlets and charging lithium batteries inside their rooms — creating a potential fire hazard.
FDNY announce the vacate order. Matthew McDermott
NYPD officers stood by as city and state fire officials inspected a migrant shelter at the former Touro University campus in Manhattan. The site was one of more than a half-dozen evacuated over fire code violation concerns. G.N.Miller/NYPostMany of the migrants work jobs in food delivery, as evidenced by the row of scooters outside the shelter.
More than 140,000 from the US border with Mexico have been shipped to New York City since the spring of last year, with nearly 66,000 still in city care — creating an unprecedented shortage of shelter space.
The Post reported earlier this month that the city hired ex-cops and firefighters to serve as “fire wardens” at several migrant sites as concerns over fire code violations grew.
FDNY officials said about 110 migrants from the former Touro University campus were put on city vans on Monday and cleared out. About 40 were left stranded, and were given MetroCards and maps to other Big Apple shelters. G.N.Miller/NYPostSources later confirmed that about seven sites would be issued vacate orders, including a controversial shelter at the former St. John Villa Academy, a one-time Catholic school on Staten Island.
That shelter was cleared out last week, with locals — who had demonstrated outside the school — cheering as about 200 migrants were loaded onto city Parks Department vans and carted away.
Also on the FDNY hit list is another defunct Staten Island school, the Richard H. Hungerford School.
According to sources, Mayor Eric Adams did not see eye to eye with the FDNY on the vacate orders.
Migrants leaving the shelter make their way to nearby transport. The shelter site stands opposite Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Matthew McDermott
The shelters security staff also helped with vacating migrants from the site. Matthew McDermott




