The Mayor's Office says more than 93,000 asylum seekers have come through the city's intake system since last spring.
The Roosevelt Hotel processing center for newly-arrived migrants has reached capacity in Midtown Manhattan.
Mayor Eric Adams' office says scenes like this could be more common as the city continues to grapple with the number of migrants who are here and continue to arrive. The hotel is being used as an intake center, which means the majority of the people lined up will be taken to another shelter once they're done being processed.On Sunday morning, Eyewitness Newssaw asylum seekers leaving the hotel and getting on an MTA bus to go to a shelter in the Bronx.
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