Overnight at the Roosevelt Hotel, where hundreds of migrants are still waiting for somewhere to go.
It’s midnight, and people in various states of repose line the sidewalk outside of the Roosevelt Hotel, a barricaded stretch of tired bodies that wraps around East 45th and onto Vanderbilt. Some of the asylum seekers wear cloth masks over their eyes to block out the light, attempting rest. Others seemed resigned to their awakeness. “We can’t sleep because of the worry,” says Malik Gueye, who is from Senegal. “It’s so difficult.
Gueye is one of hundreds of migrants, most of them single men, who have spent the last few days stationed outside of the Roosevelt, the thousand-room midtown hotel turned intake center, in hopes of securing a place to stay. While others left or took temporary shelter on air-conditioned buses provided by the city, the people who remained on line saw it as their best chance to get a bed, even as the city claims there aren’t any — that both the shelters and emergency-housing system are at capacity.
Jun Yang, an elderly man from China, asks me to write down his case number and shows me a red raffle ticket marking his place in line. Throughout the weekend, as the line around the hotel grew, employees of the city’s scrutinized subcontractor DocGoa few at a time — processing them for basic services and placement elsewhere — and local organizations like the Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless have been present to facilitate aid during the day.
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