Overnight into Friday, about a hundred migrants seeking asylum in the United States were moved to a makeshift shelter housed inside an NYPD’s training center in Gramercy Park.

Using the nine-story building completed in 1964 for this purpose generated controversy almost immediately.

The Police Benevolent Association president called the decision terrible for everyone and inhumane to migrants.

“A significant risk to house civilians in an active, working police facility, which means a large contingent of police officers will need to be posted there for both the safety of the migrants and the security of the building,” Pat Lynch, president of Police Benevolent Association, said.

Former FBI Special Agent and NYPD Sergeant Manuel Gomez trained in the facility.

“There is no protocol, there’s no system in place to be able to identify and to detect if there is an imminent threat to the city, the country, and the other immigrants that are literally here because of real issues that they have in their country,” Gomez said.

Also on Friday, FEMA announced out of their allocation of over $332 million to several localities to deal with migrant surges. New York City will receive $30.5 million in funding.

Mayor Eric Adams had asked for $650 million last month and says New Yorkers have already paid $1 billion to shelter asylum seekers so far — having no option but to house newcomers in gyms ahead of a pandemic-era restriction called Title 42 expiring next week.

“The $30.5 million we worked to provide New York City in this first round of funding is a step in the right direction,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said.

Giovanni García, a Venezuelan asylum seeker, said there is a difference between being inside the NYPD property versus the immigration detention center, where he spent weeks

“It’s a five-star hotel, compared to what we faced there,” Giovanni García said about the accommodation inside the NYPD property.

The mayor’s office added that with Title 42 being lifted next week, the city will need more federal support than ever before to manage this crisis.