NYC’s daily migrant arrivals nearly double as city sees new record of 4,000 asylum seekers in one week

A record number of migrants flowed into the Big Apple last week — with city officials logging nearly double the daily average of asylum seekers, new data show.

Roughly 3,900 migrants arrived in New York City over the seven-day span ending Sunday, according to City Hall data.

That brings the total number of asylum seekers who have made their way to the Big Apple to more than 126,700 since the start of the crisis in spring 2022.

“We can’t keep going like this,”  Council Member Robert Holden (D-Queens) railed Thursday. “The mayor needs to start turning buses around.

“More than a year ago, we reached a breaking point with the migrant situation, and now it’s even worse.” 

More than 64,100 of those migrants remain in the city’s care, according to City Hall.

The old record was set last week, as about 3,700 new asylum seekers arrived in the Big Apple. That was a few hundred more than the weekly average, which has hovered around 3,000 over the last few months.

The average of new asylum seekers had recently come in at 300 to 400 per day while over recent weeks that has grown to nearly 600.

The uptick had been expected over the last few weeks with the number of migrants arriving at the border increasing recently.

“I can tell you first hand that the Mayor is at his boiling point,” City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli told The Post.

“We have passed our breaking point. He knows it, I know it.”

City officials were scrambling behind the scenes last week to identify new shelter sites ahead of the surge of asylum seekers heading for the Big Apple.

The weekly tally, though, came in under the expected estimates of 4,200 to 5,600 per week.

One city shelter leader told The Post the uptick has been apparent. 

“Before it was like 300 per week and now it’s like 500 per week,” Rev. Juan Carlos Ruiz, Pastor at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd.

“We need to have a long-term plan,” Ruiz said calling out the mayor.”We cannot be doing this reactively. We cannot be on an emergency basis. It’s nonsustainable.”

He also disputed Mayor Eric Adams’ assertion that New York didn’t have the resources to continue sheltering migrants.

“We have the resources. We need to tax the rich, we need to tax the wealthy. Wall Street needs to be taxed. The subsidies to all of these corporations, they have to stop.”

Councilwoman Diana Ayala (D-Manhattan and The Bronx) plainly The Post that “this is our new reality.”

“This is going to continue to happen until something happens at the border or people are diverted elsewhere,” she added. 

Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom said last week she was already “concerned” about the increase in asylum seekers in recent days.

“I can’t believe that we’re still in this situation where we are talking about how many more sites we want to open,” she said during the mayor’s off-topic briefing on Oct. 3.

The city has opened more than 200 makeshift shelter sites since the start of the crisis to house people claiming asylum in NYC.

The deputy mayor’s comments came a day before Mayor Eric Adams jetted to Central and South America as part of a fact-finding mission to learn about the path of migrants to the US and try to dissuade people from coming to New York.