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NYC Builders Are Converting Shuttered Migrant Hotels Into Apartments

NYC Builders Are Converting Shuttered Migrant Hotels Into Apartments

New York City developers are seizing an unusual opportunity: converting at least a dozen hotels that housed migrants into new apartments.
In Queens, a former Hilton near JFK airport is reopening as affordable housing. In Manhattan's Financial District, the world's tallest Holiday Inn is becoming for-profit student housing. In Midtown Manhattan, a developer is transforming a 600-key hotel into more than 500 residential units.
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