mobanmarketCROWN HEIGHTS, NY — One Crown Heights school was reportedly on a short list to shelter incoming migrants as the city continued to scramble for more space.
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Crown Heights’ P.S. 189, located on East New York Avenue between East 96th Street and Rockaway Parkway, was expected to shelter migrants as other emergency shelters fill up, according to multiple news reports and NYC School Safety Coalition.
A City Hall representative did not confirm the Crown Heights location to Patch. Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday told FOX5 the plan to house asylum-seekers in 20 NYC school gyms was not solidified, but could be on the table as more migrants arrive.
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The 20 schools would include at least six in Brooklyn, The City reported.
“They’re one of the areas that we are looking at. We are not there yet to state that this is going to be happening,” Adams said in an interview with FOX5. “We have to create a list of locations because the flow has not stopped and it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop.”
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Some 75 asylum seekers were housed in Coney Island’s P.S. 188 by Monday, CBS reported. Cots were being set up Monday at P.S. 172 in Sunset Park, and three schools in Williamsburg were also identified as potential shelters, The City reported.
Some 4,200 asylum seekers arrived in New York City just last week, a City Hall spokesperson said in a statement to Patch.
“As we’ve been saying for months, we are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis,” the spokesperson said. “We are opening emergency shelters and respite centers daily, but we are out of space. As the mayor has said, nothing is off the table.”
The potential move to Brooklyn schools has already proven unpopular among many parents.
“We understand that Mayor Adams is dealing with a humanitarian crisis and is in an untenable and difficult situation. However, our schools are not shelters,” the NYC School Safety Coalition wrote in a statement.
“Our parents don’t want strangers in our schools.”
On Monday, some parents at P.S. 188 told CBS News they would not send their kids to school, and many rallied at the school on Tuesday.
New York City Council member Ari Kagan said the shelter at P.S. 188 was “not an acceptable solution,” and parents want the school returned back to normal.
“Principal & parents told me they want to come back to normalcy & to see school gym being returned to the children of Coney Island,” Kagan wrote in a Tweet.
Outside P.S. 17 in Williamsburg Tuesday, students and parents also rallied against the potential move.
“We support asylum seekers, not on school grounds,” protesters cant in a video of the rally posted to Twitter.
Adams on Tuesday said the schools identified all had self-standing gyms, minimizing the impact to students.
“This is not every school gym in our cities. These are self-standing gyms that are not inside the school buildings,” he told FOX5.
Other parents appreciated the city’s effort to show humanity amid the crisis, according to CBS News.
“Everybody needs a chance in life. Everybody’s going through something,” one person told CBS News.
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