The city will open two new migrant relief centers as it prepares to close its shelter at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, officials said. 

The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal relief center will shutter at the end of the month as the facility in Red Hook prepares for cruise season, Mayor Eric Adams said in a press release Monday. 

Single men currently staying at the cruise terminal will move to two new relief centers: one on West 42nd Street in Times Square and another on Jefferson Street in Bushwick. 

Both centers will also house newly arriving single men if there is enough space, the release said, adding that the two sites will serve "up to approximately 1,200 asylum seekers."

The release noted that the city had always intended to close the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal shelter ahead of cruise season. 

The site was the subject of controversy when the city first began moving migrants there at the end of January, with some advocates comparing it to a “detention center” and a group of asylum seekers temporarily refusing to move there from a hotel in Hell’s Kitchen, citing poor conditions. 

Adams refuted those allegations at the time, saying in a statement that the cruise terminal site was “providing the same services to asylum seekers as every other humanitarian relief center in the city.” 

He also spent a night sleeping on a cot at the cruise terminal in February in an effort to show “solidarity” with migrants staying at the site. 

An estimated 51,000 asylum seekers have arrived in the city since last spring, more than 31,000 of whom are “currently in [the city’s] care,” Adams said in a statement on Monday, as he reiterated his plea for state and federal aid to address the crisis.

The city has opened 96 emergency shelters and a handful of larger humanitarian relief centers, including the one at the cruise terminal, to support asylum seekers arriving in the five boroughs, the release said. 

And last week, the mayor announced plans to open a 24/7 migrant assistance center to direct asylum seekers to resources. 

“We continue to do more than any other city in the nation, but as the number of asylum seekers continues to grow, we are in serious need of support from both our state and federal governments,” he said.