Over the weekend, families staying at the La Quinta Hotel in Gowanus, Brooklyn, were told the shelter was shutting down for repairs.

They were told over the next several days, groups of families would be transferred to another shelter.

Michael Montano said he and his family will be moved to Queens, despite his son going to school in Brooklyn.

“We are worried because we don’t know where they are taking us or anything. It is the uncertainty. Although one comes grateful because in one’s country one does not receive help or anything, but without knowing where they are taking us,” he said through translation.

One block away at the Win Shirley Chisholm and Rosa Parks shelters, a mother of two says she was given a 24-hour transfer notice last week from the city and moved to a hotel shelter in Brooklyn.

In agreeing to speak to NY1, she asked her identity and name to remain anonymous.

She says her family had been living in the WIN shelter for two years before being transferred.

Now, she says her 6-year-old son has a more than 40 minutes commute to his school at P.S. 124, right across the street from their old shelter.

“Here, we had more space, we had a kitchen, we were more comfortable in the hotel,” she said through translation. “Here, [there] are many rules that are not appropriate and one lives like that with children, because imagine, I have it for the little one and I can’t do it. I can’t, I can’t do anything.”

Win confirms last week some asylum seeker families received transfer notices from the city.

Their facility shelters unhoused families as well as asylum seeker families.

The city’s Department of Social Services issued a statement on the transfers.

The department said in part, “Asylum seeker families face a variety of specific needs that, in many cases, can be quite different from other families experiencing homelessness. DHS sanctuary sites are better positioned to link asylum seeker families to the critical legal and other services that are essential as they transition to life in New York City.

Another mother, who also wished to her identity and name remain anonymous, told NY1 she also received a transfer noticed last week but has refused to leave because her children’s school is across the street.

“We are worried because there are only two months left until the end of the school year. And we don’t want our children to lose their effort,” she said.

Win issued a statement saying in part, “Win stands firmly against shelter transfers, a cruel and senseless policy that the Department of Homeless Services must end immediately.”

Parents from P.S. 124 say between the three shelters surrounding the school, about 90 enrolled students could potentially be impacted by a shelter closure or transfer from the city.

They also said the school community is calling on the city to stop the transfers all together, but if anything at least until the end of June 30, so students can finish out the school year uninterrupted.

The school community is working together to help provide transportation to and from school to families who have been moved.

“It is the spirit of our school, it is the spirit of our families to support our families and we are just not going to leave them behind,” said P.S. 124 PTA co-president Maria Marin said.

According to the Department of Social Service, moving asylum seeker families to sanctuary specific sites connects them easily to help with asylum, applications Temporary Protected Services and work authorization.