Merchants and residents in a South Bronx neighborhood are crying foul over plans to open a massive new migrant men’s shelter next month, calling the move dangerous.

An arctic air mass settled over New York City and much of the country Sunday evening, bringing a deep freeze and the chance of more snow than the city has seen in three years.

Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) called on the city to stop treating his home borough like “a dumping ground” for shelters, as the Adams administration prepares to move thousands of migrant men to the neighborhood.

The suspect was shot once in the torso in a building stairwell after cops repeatedly demanded he drop the knife in the Mott Haven neighborhood around 5:45 p.m., Deputy Chief Rohan Griffith said

The NYPD said a 32-year-old man holding a kitchen knife was shot inside the stairwell of a Bronx apartment building by officers responding to a 911 call for an attempted robbery.

The Hall Street shelter in Brooklyn, which drew numerous complaints, is among several that will soon close in New York.

The city will close 13 emergency migrant shelters by June and open one additional facility in the Bronx, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. Shelters in all five boroughs, including the massive and controversial Hall Street facility in Brooklyn,

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After New York Mayor Eric Adams announced plans for a 2,000-bed migrant shelter in the Bronx, Rep. Ritchie Torres slammed the decision, accusing Adams of creating an immigrant “dumping ground."

A 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a broad-daylight Friday morning attack outside a Bronx public housing complex, authorities said.

New York City is opening a new migrant shelter in the Bronx capable of housing up to 2,200 residents, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday.