A controversial Manhattan hotel being used to shelter migrants is set to close. The Roosevelt Hotel became an emblem of New York City’s fraught effort to manage thousands of international migrants who have flooded into the city in recent years.

New York City's main migrant shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan will shut down, Mayor Eric Adams announced.

The Roosevelt Hotel, which has roughly 1,000 rooms, first transformed into a migrant welcoming center and shelter in May 2023.

The Roosevelt Hotel, which has been open for nearly two years as a main intake center for migrants, is set to close in the coming months, according to Mayor Eric Adams.

The site opened in May 2023, during the height of the asylum-seeker crisis, when the city received an average of 4,000 new arrivals each week.

Other migrant shelter closures may open up their own development opportunities. The 3,000-person facility at 47 Hall St. in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, expected to close by June, is being eyed by developer RXR Realty as the future site of a mixed-use campus with more than 600 apartments.

The closing of the Roosevelt Hotel migrant shelter in Manhattan is a sign the crisis is abating. CBS News New York's Marcia Kramer reports.

The city is closing its migrant intake center at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, teeing up a potential teardown.