The Big Apple is “considering” a plan to house migrants at Rikers Island, sources told The Post Wednesday — as Mayor Eric Adams revealed nearly 50% of the city’s contracted hotel rooms are occupied by asylum seekers amid the surging crisis.

City officials toured the notorious jail last week as the Adams administration weighs whether to shelter asylum seekers there, according to two people familiar with the potential plan.

Another source added that officials were suggesting Rikers as a “last-ditch site” to house migrants as the city struggles with the ongoing influx of asylum seekers.

Hizzoner on Wednesday wouldn’t confirm the Rikers proposal, insisting instead, “We are looking at everything.”

“As we roll out what we were doing, we will announce. But right now everything, I tell the team every morning at 8 a.m., we are looking at everything.”

As part of the city’s plan to cope with the migrant surge, the Adams administration has been housing migrants in the roughly 150 emergency sites — mostly hotels — that have been set up across the five boroughs.

Adams said almost half of the Big Apple’s hotel rooms set aside for emergency shelter are “taken up by asylum seekers.”

“New York City is the hotel capital… almost 50% of those hotel rooms have been taken up by migrant asylum seekers,” the mayor said.

“So instead of money coming from people who are visiting us and spending in our tourism, in our Broadway plays, instead of using those hotels — we’re using those hotels.” 

City Hall clarified Adams’ statement later Wednesday evening, telling The Post that the Mayor meant to say that just under 50% of hotels housing migrants were full — rather than the Big Apple’s entire hotel stock.

“New York is doing more than any other city to shelter asylum seekers. Asylum seekers are currently being sheltered at over 40 percent of the hotels with 51 to 200 units. We are utilizing more than 150 sites, the vast majority being midsized hotels, to shelter the more than 41,000 asylum seekers currently in our care. For months, we’ve been asking our state and federal partners for support and to come up with a decompression strategy that takes the pressure off of New York City,” said a City Hall spokesman.

City Hall has faced intense backlash in recent weeks after officials started busing migrants to hotels in upstate counties — prompting top pols in Rockland, Orange and Riverhead counties to seek restraining orders to ban the Big Apple from doing so.

Meanwhile, furious parents started picketing outside several city public schools this week after it emerged that 20 school gyms were being eyed to hold migrants.

As the city continued to struggle under the weight of the migrant crisis, Gov. Kathy Hochul was considering using two upstate State University of New York campuses to take on arriving asylum seekers, The Post has learned.

The two locations under consideration are SUNY Geneseo and SUNY Oswego, local area rep, GOP Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, told The Post.

Hizzoner had previously announced SUNY Sullivan would take up to 100 migrants on that campus, though it isn’t clear if those asylum seekers had arrived yet.

“At Governor Hochul’s direction, we are assessing whether there are SUNY resources available to help with the arrival of asylum seekers,” a SUNY rep said.

Tenney, however, ripped the potential plan as a “misguided decision.”

“Without extensive vetting, health screenings, funding and background information, we have no idea who these migrants even are or where they came from,” Tenney said, adding the “unmitigated disaster” was a direct result of President Biden’s open border policies.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, who represents the district containing SUNY Cobleskill, also slammed the move.

“It’s disgusting and shameful that Governor Kathy Hochul is in discussion with local officials about using taxpayer-funded SUNY schools and facilities throughout New York, including SUNY schools across NY-21 to house unvetted illegal immigrants,” she said in a statement.

Let me be very clear, Upstate New York is not a sanctuary city to clean up Joe Biden’s catastrophic border crisis. We respect the rule of law and we oppose any attempt to use our taxpayer-funded facilities to be used for free housing for illegal immigrants.

This decision does nothing to address the Biden Border Crisis and only incentivizes more illegal immigration. This is why House Republicans passed the strongest border bill in our nation’s history.”