What Happens When You House More Than 1,000 Refugees on a Cruise Ship?

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( friday, november 18 migrant crisis [What Happens When You House More Than 1,000 Refugees on a Cruise Ship?]( Lessons for New York from Rotterdam’s six-month experiment. Photo: Hollandse Hoogte/Shutterstock During New York City’s summer scramble to find beds for a surge of migrants, Mayor Eric Adams initially proposed housing people on cruise ships — an idea that local immigration advocates called [insulting](. The city ended up creating three “emergency relief” centers instead, building a tent city on Randall’s Island and repurposing two midtown hotels. But the number of migrants has “dropped significantly” in recent weeks after Adams lobbied President Biden for stricter border policies, said Fabien Levy, the mayor’s press secretary. So New York decided to [close the tent city]( last week and has shelved the cruise-ship idea for now. [Continue reading »]( [Subscribe for over 60 percent off]( and unlock unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. Plus get a free tote and access to our forthcoming 2022 holiday gift guide. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [You Can Finally Buy Derek Jeter’s Castle An $8 million price cut means your time has come.]( By Clio Chang [Airbnb’s Co-founder Is Building ADUs That Would Make Great Airbnbs What a coincidence.]( By Kim Velsey [Don’t Blame the E-Bike There’s fear and confusion after a surge of preventable battery fires.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up for Reread: Real Estate Mania](, a newsletter resurfacing the wildest real-estate stories from the New York archives. Photo: New York Magazine [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( If you enjoyed reading Curbed’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or [sign up for our Design Hunting newsletter]( for a visual diary from design editor Wendy Goodman. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved