Where the Migrants Who Came to New York Are Living Now

The new arrivals came to New York from all over the globe. They were scattered to every corner of this city — to over 200 shelters in repurposed hotels, former jails and schools, or enormous tented dormitories with cots so close together that they touch.

New York’s migrant shelters have created a new kind of immigrant neighborhood: overnight villages where the town square is a parking lot or a hotel lobby.

The enclaves have emerged on the city’s industrial fringes, inside office buildings in the densest commercial districts of Manhattan, and in empty schools in quasi-suburban residential neighborhoods.

These may be strange places to start a new life. But life cannot help happening. It sprouts from cracks in the asphalt. As the city scrambles endlessly to find more sites to put the migrants, here are some of the places where the newest New Yorkers are finding their footing