Van Cortlandt Motel offers instant shelter, but so few services for new immigrants

Migrants at emergency shelters turn to mutual aid for support, other assistance

By Abigail Nehring

Posted 5/25/23

Riverdale’s newest residents are settling into their leafy surrounds at the Van Cortlandt Motel — a safe haven, for now, they hope, while they apply for asylum and seek authorization to work legally in the United States.

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