Just a year ago, lines of migrants bundled and slept on the sidewalks outside the St. Brigid’s School in the East Village, waiting for shelter placement and connection to other resources.

A year later, 11 migrant shelters have been closed because the city says they are no longer needed.

“We moved from the emergency level, we want to normalize that. That normalization means closing down some of the HERCs that we are able to close down,” Mayor Eric Adams explained last week at a press briefing. “We're going to continue to try to do that. The team is looking at next level of what we want to accomplish in this process.

According to City Hall, last month’s shelter closures removed approximately 1,800 rooms or beds from the city's emergency migrant shelter system.

Four hotels in Queens, three hotels in Manhattan and Brooklyn and one in the Bronx have all stopped operating as shelters, as of at least Dec. 1, city officials said.

The Americana Hotel in Midtown, formally a migrant shelter for families, is reportedly reopening for tourists later this week.

In a statement on the closures, a City Hall spokesperson said, in part, “This is a testament to the hard work our staff and many partners have put in to ensure we kept thousands of migrants from sleeping on our streets every night, and the more than 167,000 migrants the city has helped move on to the next stage of their journey."

As of last week, the city said it has more than 115,000 people in its care, including more than 56,000 migrants.

That’s a fraction of the more than 224,000 that have come through the city’s intake system since the spring of 2022.

The mayor said if this declining trend continues, more shelters will continue to close in the future, including the tent shelter on Randalls, which is set to close early next year.