City Moves to Close Area in Port Authority Where Volunteers Help Migrants - THE CITY

The abrupt shutdown of a greeting area marks a breaking point in the fraying relationships between City Hall and the activist groups running the site.

Find our journalism more easily when you are searching for local coverage. Add The City Reporter on Google City officials moved to close down the welcome center inside the Port Authority bus terminal where a bustling network of volunteers have greeted arriving migrants for the past nine months, advocates said Thursday. The midtown site had grown into a vibrant outpost for new arrivals seeking hot food and clothing, along with earlier asylum-seekers looking for legal help, housing assistance and other aid. Community organizer Power Malu with the group Artists Athletes Activists , which has been

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