Last month, Mayor Adams announced the city would pay $514 million to continue programs backed by expiring federal stimulus funds after the pandemic. The investment included $92 million for 3-K next school year — but it did not restore recent budget cuts to the program that Adams has blamed on the costs of sheltering migrants.

“I do want to come back to some of the statements you made when you were last before us,” said Councilman Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn), referencing a preliminary education budget hearing on March 18.

“You went on to say, ‘The parents in New York City are waiting to see if these cuts are going to be restored. I’m fighting to make that happen. And I believe that it is exactly what is going to happen in the coming weeks,'” he continued. “But of course, it didn’t happen. The mayor did not restore $170 million of cuts to early childhood education just that he made this year.”

Despite those cuts staying in the budget, education officials could not say how the reduction would impact the number of available seats.

“The last time you were here, you said we would restore it,” said Councilwoman Rita Joseph (D-Brooklyn), head of the Education Committee. “What’s the plan for that?”

Since former Mayor Bill de Blasio planned to expand 3-K, the Adams administration has attributed subsequent cuts to a series of problems as the program was stood up with temporary COVID aid. While 23,000 early childhood seats are currently empty, families are being shut out of programs elsewhere in the city.

With 3-K offers set to be released Thursday, 16% of families were not matched with any program ranked on their applications, according to preliminary data shared at the hearing. About 78% of families will receive an offer to one of their top three choices.

“I can’t over emphasize enough the state — the challenged state — that we assumed when we came into office as relates to early childhood,” Banks said. “We have made very, very significant progress, given what we inherited when we got here.”

Education officials have moved thousands of program seats across the city and adapted them to meet the scheduling and age-specific needs of more families. The city also tapped consultants at Accenture to produce a report, due last month, that could suggest more improvements to the program. It’s yet to be released.

“For working families, access to early childhood education is a deciding factor of whether they can remain in New York City or must leave to raise their children elsewhere,” said Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queens).

Despite the city’s hefty down payment last month, another $200 million fiscal cliff remains after COVID aid expires this summer. Programs on the chopping block or at risk of being trimmed back include hundreds of school nurses hired during the pandemic, alternatives to disciplinary action and suspensions and services for preschool age children with disabilities.

“The Council has been steady on this that our biggest challenge is not the costs related to the migrant influx but to grappling with the expiration of temporary dollars that were used to prop up permanent programs,” said Councilman Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn), head of the Finance Committee.

Those budget woes were only worsened by less-than-expected school aid from the state, after lawmakers punted a funding formula overhaul until next year but tweaked how inflation is calculated. The result was a state aid increase that was nonetheless $126 million below what city education officials anticipated.

“It is very challenging as chancellor to have a list given to you of all these wonderful and amazing programs and to be told, which ones do you prioritize?” said Banks. “How do you prioritize arts over community schools? I mean, it’s like asking you which one is your favorite child? These are all wonderfully amazing programs. We don’t want to lose any of them.”

A final city budget is due by July 1.

The NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition, a coalition of various student groups, had promoted an “autonomously planned” walkout on social media, as the newly minted university president Linda Mills was scheduled to deliver her first commencement address.

Graduates in keffiyehs painted their hands red to protest Israel’s military action in Gaza and what they see as NYU’s complicity in failing to divest from the Jewish state.

“No graduation as usual,” the student groups said in an Instagram post.

As students walked out, Mills introduced a musical performance from “Wicked,” which involved many NYU alumni and she described as a story about two formidable forces at odds who ultimately unite, “appreciating that each offers the other something to learn.”

“Today, as we face a world of war and polarization, this is as important as ever — the enduring desire to be open to those most unlike us. And this is the lesson of Wicked,” the university president said.

Spokespeople for NYU did not immediately return a request for comment, but told a student newspaper the disruption was minimal.

“During a joyful 2 1/2 hours for 40,000 grads and guests, I observed a few passing moments of booing by a tiny fraction of the crowd,” NYU spokesperson John Beckman wrote in a statement to student newspaper Washington Square News.

“It had no impact on the proceedings, which carried on very well, and the overwhelming majority of the attendees seemed to enjoy the Commencement Exercises very much.”

Last week, about 20 pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the main campus library for a few hours at the height of final exams season, unfurling banners and demanding divestment.

University officials have twice summoned the NYPD to clear Gaza solidarity encampments, resulting in close to 150 arrests at NYU since April 22.

NYU’s main commencement came on the heels of a series of smaller graduations at Columbia University, after college officials cancelled the university-wide ceremony. While school-level celebrations have continued, some have featured disruptions and demonstrations, including a social work graduate who ripped their diploma folder in half on stage.

“They stayed strong. They just had tight security and said, the rest of the graduates is more important,” NYU graduate Zack said. “So I think it’s a credit to the president and the administration.”

For many of the undergraduates who finished their degrees this semester, Wednesday marked their first major graduation after many high school ceremonies were cancelled in 2020.

“We started during the pandemic. And so, we’re so happy to be having a graduation for real,” said Dakota Bobadilla, a drama major from San Francisco, whose family flew across the country for the ceremony.

“It’s a little scary going into the future,” another graduate, Ella Webb, said as she starts a job as a grant writer while she auditions in New York. “But I’m really excited to be here.”

Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly occupied the lobby of the CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday night, about two weeks after big NYPD crackdowns at City College of New York and other campuses.

Roughly two dozen students demonstrated for several hours inside the lobby on Fifth Ave. near E. 34th St., hanging banners and dubbing the Center’s library “The Al Aqsa University Library.”

Al Aqsa University, the oldest public university in Gaza, has been destroyed during Israel’s war on Hamas.

About 75 protesters stood in the rain outside the Graduate Center waving Palestinian flags. Dozens of NYPD cops lined the street outside the building but did not breach the building. Meanwhile, students were seen diligently studying inside the library as the spring semester wound down.

Students involved in the demo called on administrators to negotiate a divestment from “Israeli weapons, tech and surveillance companies.”

Around 10:30 p.m., students emerged from the Graduate Center and declared victory, telling protesters on the street that after negotiations, CUNY administrators agreed to forward their demands to the entire student body.

The protesters lit a traffic flare and evacuated the library, which custodians immediately began cleaning up.

Organizers indicated they’d been motivated by campus crackdowns that made national headlines earlier this month.

“On April 30, the City College administration called the New York Police Department to dismantle the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment, resulting in brutalization of protestors and almost 200 arrests,” the students said in a statement before leaving the building. “On May 13, CCNY threatened pro-Palestine students with suspension for protesting on their own campus.”

On May 1, police made 173 arrests after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied a City College administration building, vandalizing offices and shattering glass doors, before CUNY called in the NYPD to clear the encampment, officials previously said.

A CUNY Graduate Center spokeswoman did not immediately requests for comment Tuesday night.

Columbia scrapped its university-wide commencement amid ongoing protests over the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas that peaked with the takeover of an academic building, Hamilton Hall, when administrators summoned the NYPD for the second time this spring.

“It’s been super tumultuous, a very fitting end to our experience I think, considering the way we started,” said Samantha Velasquez, a neuroscience and political science major from the Bronx, who began college online. “I’m just glad I got to walk I guess because I didn’t get to in high school.”

School-level ceremonies, where students get to cross the graduation stage, continued miles away from Columbia’s main campus in Morningside Heights at its athletic complex in Inwood.

But a small share of students persisted with their demonstrations against Israel’s war in Gaza, waving Palestinian flags and wearing keffiyehs. On stage, the Class of 2024 valedictorian donned the Middle Eastern scarf and placed a “Free Palestine” sticker over her clear award plaque, a livestream inside graduation showed. Another student paraded outside the complex with a sign saying “Columbia funds genocide” after the ceremony.

“This has informed everyone’s end of their time on campus,” said a graduate, who decorated his graduation with ‘Hind’s Hall,’ the name protesters gave to the occupied building after a young victim of war, and an image of a tent. “It’s important to let admin know that this is what we’re thinking about, even though it’s graduation.”

A graduation program reviewed by the Daily News showed University President Minouche Shafik, who is facing a vote of no confidence by arts and sciences faculty, was scheduled to —  but did not — deliver remarks before the conferral of degrees.

A Columbia spokesperson disputed the president was scheduled to speak in the first place, saying programs were printed before Shafik was confirmed.

An estimated 15,000 Columbia students were expected to receive diplomas this semester. Some seniors who face disciplinary action related to the pro-Palestinian protests were not eligible to complete their degrees.

“To me, graduating high school is something you are supposed to do, if that makes sense, so I wasn’t that torn up about it,” said Noah Layton, who skipped protests this semester to avoid risking a diploma. “This was much harder to do. So it stings a little bit more.”

Some of the smaller ceremonies of the last several days have featured some disruptions and demonstrations.

A handful of graduates at the School of General Studies ceremony Monday refused to shake the dean’s hand as they received their diplomas, student newspaper Columbia Spectator reported. At the end of last week, a Columbia social work graduate in zip ties and a keffiyeh ripped their diploma folder on stage.

Juan Zuniga did not fault student protesters for the loss of university-wide commencement, originally scheduled for Wednesday.

“I support the students’ right to free speech,” Zuniga said. “Their cause is more than our graduation. It is what it is. I’m just disappointed.”

Instead that day, students will host a smaller, wristband-only celebration on main campus with music, performances, student speeches, and a block party with food trucks, an announcement read. The event is open to graduates only, and not to families and friends. Certain items are prohibited, including signs and flags.

“Obviously, the administration could have handled it better,” said another Columbia senior, while adding: “I understand why. It’s a safety concern, whether you support the protests or not. I wouldn’t want my relatives from the UK to fly over here for anything bad to happen.”

“It’s also New York. In any other Ivy League, it would be easier to control. Even though it sucks, because it’s so publicized, this type of thing does attract all sorts of people.”

Columbia has requested the NYPD remain on campus through May 17, after all graduation ceremonies have ended.

Pro-Palestinian protests that had been a feature of campus life since the fall came to define the spring semester after a group of students set up a tent city on the campus lawns, as university officials were set to appear at a congressional antisemitism hearing. The encampment, now dismantled, sparked a national movement of college protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

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Cops were called to the Stephen T. Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship High School on W. 49th St. near 10th Ave. in Hell’s Kitchen around 1:20 p.m. after the fight.

They found the boys — one slashed across the face, the other, stabbed in the chest — cops said.

Both teens were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries and were taken taken into custody by police, they added.

Charges were not immediately filed.

The school was put into a soft lockdown following the knife attack, a Department of Education spokesperson said.

A “soft” lockdown means there’s no imminent danger, according to Education Department policy. Students are trained to move out of sight and keep silent and teachers check the hallway for students, lock classroom doors and turn off the lights.

The school is non-scanning, meaning students are not required to walk through metal detectors on their way in, sources said.

“The safety and wellbeing of our students is our top priority,” said Jenna Lyle, a spokeswoman for the public schools. “Violence has absolutely no place in our schools, and this behavior is unacceptable.”

Video of the protest, which went viral Sunday night after the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine posted the clip on social media, showed the master’s program graduate cross the stage with their hands above their head, before tearing the folder in two and tossing it behind them.

The protester then held up their graduation cap, reportedly decorated with the name of a Palestinian prisoner, Mohammad Natsheh, during the event on Friday evening.

University officials twice this semester summoned the NYPD to arrest pro-Palestinian campus protesters, who were placed in the plastic handcuffs the protester and another couple of graduates wore.

“What significance do our diplomas hold when there are no universities left in Gaza because of our tax dollars and tuition?” the student group wrote on Instagram.

A few pro-Palestinian students fastened silver duct tape over their mouths, while dozens more wore keffiyehs and carried photos and wrote the names of Palestinians imprisoned or killed during Israel’s war in Gaza, a recording of the ceremony showed.

“Thousands of Columbia graduates and their families have already celebrated at Class Day ceremonies that started on Friday and concluded successfully with virtually no disruption,” a Columbia spokesman said in a statement.

“We join in the excitement of the remaining graduates who will celebrate their incredible achievements at their own Class Days and graduation events the rest of this week and as they start their next chapter.”

One of the social work graduates crossed the stage holding a midsized Israeli flag, according to the recording.

Leo Massey, who said by graduation he believed he was the only Jewish student in his about 14-person program, said he brought the Israeli flag “just in case” pro-Palestinian protests broke out during the ceremony.

“If I don’t bring the Israeli flag, who is going to?” he recalled Monday of his thinking. “After I’ve been there for 2.5 years at the Columbia School of Social Work, I couldn’t think of anyone else speaking out about this.”

The pro-Palestinian graduate who ripped the diploma did not return requests for comment.

Last week, Columbia announced the cancellation of its universitywide commencement, citing security concerns after weeks of campus protests over the war in Gaza that culminated with the takeover of an academic building, Hamilton Hall.

School-level graduation ceremonies are continuing as scheduled but were relocated from main campus to Columbia’s athletic complex several miles north. The largest undergraduate college graduation will be held Tuesday.

There were other protests and disruptions during Columbia graduation ceremonies over the weekend, including a Ph.D. student walkout and students who crossed the stage with Palestinian flags, including one that said “divest from genocide.”

Another graduate adorned their cap to say: “Acknowledge the Class of 2024 of Gaza and those who will never graduate.”

An estimated 15,000 Columbia students were expected to receive diplomas this semester, including many undergraduates whose high school graduations were canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic. Several seniors who face disciplinary action related to the pro-Palestinian protests are not eligible to complete their degrees.

Columbia has requested the NYPD remain on campus through May 17, once all school-level ceremonies have ended.

To many, the intensity came as a surprise. But for students at Columbia University and other colleges, the emotional response for many has been building, driven by factors that include the prevalence of up-close and personal narratives and unfiltered visuals of the war that have exploded on social media.

If Vietnam was the world’s first televised war, the conflict between Israel and Hamas has become a 24/7 phenomenon on many young people’s phones.

“It’s how clear the violence is and how readily available that information is,” Emma, a freshman at Columbia, said. “I think students are so deeply plugged into the internet.”

“On campus, it has really come to define the semester and the year. The students here are critical thinkers. If you are living here on campus, it’s impossible not to see what’s happening — and how wrong it is.”

The pro-Gaza encampment at Columbia was dismantled for the second time on April 30, when the NYPD took back Hamilton Hall. But the protests have continued across New York.

As Mayor Adams, and police and university officials, placed blame on outside agitators for the conduct of protests, experts pointed to a more pervasive  factor that contributed to underlying discontent on campus: Students were deeply affected by graphic images of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza after Hamas’ terror attack on Oct. 7.

“In the course of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, the endless images of dead civilians have shaped young Americans’ understanding of the war,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a African-American studies professor at Princeton University, wrote in the New Yorker. “Palestinians have captured scenes of unimaginable brutality and narrated their experiences.”

“Every smartphone has become a portal into Gaza.”

Some students pushed back against the narrative that outside agitators radicalized students, saying the issue has captured the attention of their classmates. College leaders calling in the cops, they said, only intensified the situation, while officials say the conduct of the students forced them to act.

“I think the mayor is a little too removed from where we’re at to give accurate comments,” said a Columbia undergraduate senior. “There could be, but from what I’ve seen, no. This has really resonated with students.”

CUNY student Bashir Juwara said he was already struggling with the death he witnessed in posts from Gaza, when he was arrested outside the City College encampment on April 30 for walking in the roadway and disorderly conduct. As student body president at CUNY’s Hunter College, Juwara said he had spent months engaged with college officials on campus issues related to the war.

“I’m always close to in tears whenever I see the videos,” said Juwara, adding he tries not to “because it’s so heartbreaking seeing little kids slaughtered. It’s something my heart cannot take … I cannot wrap my head around what I’m seeing, and it makes me want to take action, but my action is limited. I’m just looking to do as much as I can with the power I have.”

But for many critics of the anti-war movement, it was not so much the underlying sentiment but the conduct of some protesters that crossed the line.

For some Jewish students who identify closely with Israel, the campus demonstrations — and the outside protests and antisemitic incidents they have attracted, such as a sign at Columbia labeling Jewish counterprotesters Hamas’ next targets — have left them feeling at odds with their classmates.

At the CUNY encampment, students demanded the university ban programs that send Jewish students to Israel, while groups elsewhere in the country called on college officials to cut ties with Hillel, a Jewish campus organization that hosts shabbat and services for students away from home.

“Most of us did not choose to be political activists,” a group of Jewish students said in an open letter this week. “We do not bang on drums and chant catchy slogans. We are average students, just trying to make it through finals much like the rest of you.”

But the students — about 650 of them who signed the letter as of Friday afternoon — said others have “forced us into our activism and forced us to publicly defend our Jewish identities,” which they said “cannot be separated from Israel.”

“Our love for Israel does not necessitate blind political conformity,” the letter continued. “It’s quite the opposite. For many of us, it is our deep love for and commitment to Israel that pushes us to object when its government acts in ways we find problematic.”

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“We have deoccupied and reclaimed this space in honor fo the Diana Tamari Sabbagh Library,” students said in a statement, after a building destroyed during the war in Gaza at the end of November.

The move came one week after police cleared a nearby encampment of NYU students and is the third such occupation led by NYU students since April 21.

About 20 students participated in the protest in the library during the height of final exams season.

“The library is not only a place for study (it is our finals period), it is a setting in which we hold exams, including exams scheduled for this afternoon. It is impermissible under the University’s rules to disrupt academic activities or to interfere with other students’ academic work,” NYU spokesperson John Beckman wrote in a statement.

All students involved would be subject to disciplinary proceedings, Beckman added.

“We are disappointed that a group of students would be so insensitive to the rights of other students.  We are working to bring the situation to a close as quickly as possible.”

Campus officials initially said that the library was closed, but later reversed the directive to say that it would remain open for the final exam period.

Protesters left the library by 6 p.m., the spokesman said.

Voting is open for a week to around 1,000 faculty from the main part of the university on a highly critical resolution of Shafik, who was inaugurated last fall, accusing her administration of making unilateral decisions that put students and faculty in harm’s way.

“The President’s choices to ignore our statutes and our norms of academic freedom and shared governance, to have our students arrested, and to impose a lockdown of our campus with continuing police presence, have irrevocably undermined our confidence in her,” read the text, sent to faculty on Thursday evening.

“A vote of no confidence in the President is the first step towards rebuilding our community and re-establishing the University’s core values,” it continued.

The vote does not include faculty from other programs, such as the law or journalism schools, and was initially called for by the campus chapter of the American Association of University Professors, a professional faculty organization, last week. Columbia employs more than 4,600 full-time faculty, university data show.

“President Shafik continues to regularly consult with members of the community, including faculty, administration, and trustees, as well as with state, city and community leaders,” a Columbia spokeswoman said. “She appreciates the efforts of those working alongside her on the long road ahead to heal our community.”

In the resolution, faculty raised concerns about Shafik’s congressional testimony on April 17, when she said she planned to fire one professor and announced another two faculty members were under investigation over comments about Israel. Those actions, they said, are “clear violations” of academic freedom and paved the way for external forces to set university policies.

The text also criticizes her decision-making on student disciplinary action and police reinforcement to restore order on campus, without consultation with Columbia governance structures and over the objections of faculty and students on the executive committee of the University Senate. It also says she overstated the dangers posed by the students.

The vote comes after the Columbia administration on April 30 called in the NYPD to end the takeover of a campus building, Hamilton Hall, and dismantle the Gaza solidarity encampment, leading to more than 100 arrests in and around campus.

It was the second time in recent weeks Shafik turned to police and mass arrests on April 18 to shut down the tent demonstration, which was first erected hours ahead of her appearance before Congress and sparked a national movement of college protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

“We tried very hard to resolve the issue of the encampment through dialogue,” Shafik said last week in her first verbal address since the arrests. “Many people who gathered there were largely peaceful and cared deeply about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Academic leaders talked with students for eight days and nights. The University made a sincere and good offer, but it was not accepted.”

But the occupation of Hamilton Hall, the university president continued, “crossed a new line” and put students at risk.

Michael Thaddeus, a Columbia math professor, said the vote is believed to be the first time any school at Columbia has considered a motion of no confidence in leadership.

Shafik’s “heavy-handed security measures alienated students and made them feel less safe, not more,” Thaddeus said. “She vacillated on the encampment, first calling the police to dismantle it, then promising not to call them again, then reneging on her promise and authorizing a brutal crackdown.”

The vote is symbolic and not binding, but Thaddeus suggested current leadership should heed its call for a change in management style.

“If the motion passes, then in my opinion, President Shafik should resign,” he said.

After this semester, questions remain about how Columbia can rebuild relationships between students and the administration and restore a sense of safety on campus.

In a survey of more than 700 students and professors at Columbia, nearly all, 96%, disagreed with how Shafik’s administration has handled the demonstrations, campus newspaper Columbia Spectator and New York Magazine found. Half said Shafik should resign for various reasons, from accusing the administration of stifling free speech to doing too little to combat antisemitism.

Shafik in an op-ed for the Financial Times on Thursday called for “serious soul searching” within higher education to reunify campuses after a semester of tense protests and frayed ties among students and with university presidents.

“Whatever one thinks of the response of university leaders — denouncing hurtful rhetoric, enforcing rules and discipline, and summoning police to restore order — these are actions, not solutions. All of us who believe in higher education must now engage in serious soul searching.”

Voting on the no confidence resolution will close by end of day on Wednesday, an email to faculty said.

Mayor Adams announced a 60-day limit on how long migrant families could stay in shelters in October as an influx of asylum seekers strained the city’s shelter system. The policy was immediately panned by city workers, experts and elected officials who called it counterproductive for families trying to adjust to life in New York.

“We didn’t like the values behind the policy five months ago,” Lander said at a press conference outside The Row, a hotel turned emergency migrant shelter.

“But even if you think the policy was appropriate, you will find that it was implemented in a way that was entirely haphazard, that didn’t live up to its own goals and standards, that didn’t provide written policies to staff and contractors and that didn’t track the outcomes in any meaningful way,” he added.

By the end of last month, more than 10,200 families with children had received notices to vacate their shelters, according to a new analysis by the comptroller’s office. Among that group, more than half left the city’s care while 40% moved to other shelters and 9% stayed where they were, the audit showed. Some of the last cohort are remaining at an emergency tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field in a far-flung part of Brooklyn.

“We are seeing parents choosing to live with their children in a field rather than continue to be shuffled from shelter to shelter throughout the city,” said Liza Schwartzwald, who directs family advocacy at the New York Immigration Coalition.

The shelter policy went into effect Jan. 9, with promises of intensive case management to help families with children land on their feet.

But the audit, based on a review of materials provided by the city, found those services were limited and “do little to help families achieve self-sufficiency.” Case management emphasized finding placements for families outside the shelter system, preferably beyond New York City, rather than stable housing, the comptroller’s office found.

“While several suggestions made in the comptroller’s report are already part of our policy, any ideas on how to improve our herculean work are welcome and will be considered,” said Adams spokeswoman Kayla Mamelak, citing updated training and guidance to staff as implementation has proceeded.

The analysis found written notices to families do not provide information about exemptions, such as for pregnant women, or reasonable accommodation. City Hall said it has policies on both and regularly provides trainings on how they work.

Specific blackout dates, when families cannot be ousted from their shelters for holidays or other reasons, had not been updated since the end of March, Lander said. While the city has policies that people can request their belongings be held for 10 days and get help changing their mailing addresses — a crucial step for families applying for asylum or work authorization — the process was unclear in materials shared with the comptroller’s office.

“When they move shelter to shelter, they lose track,” said Monica Sibri, an organizer with Algún Día, who worked with a mom selling candy with her children on the subway after they lost all of their belongings while moving.

The investigation was endorsed by City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams who, after sparring with the mayor in recent weeks, said in a statement the findings can “help guide the administration toward more effective policy solutions.”

Last month, an analysis by the City Council found nearly one in five children evicted from migrant shelters were no longer enrolled in the same schools, potentially disrupting the education of over 1,000 students. Multiple studies have found that students in temporary housing who switch schools — especially those who are not native English speakers — are more likely to be chronically absent and take longer to learn the language.

More than 195,000 migrants have come through the city’s care over the last two years, including 65,600 still in the shelter system and hundreds more people arriving each day, City Hall data show.

“Our 30- and 60-day notices are one tool in our very limited toolbox to help migrants to exit shelter because, as we have repeatedly said, New York City is long past its breaking point,” said Mamelak, who repeated calls for more federal help.