The rooms at Hotel Merit in Hell’s Kitchen are being turned over now that it’s no longer an emergency shelter site.

Instead of tidying up for migrants, they’re getting ready for the building’s next phase.

“We’ve notified them that we’ll be closing the hotel in 30 days,” Camille Joseph Varlack, the mayor’s chief of staff, said during an appearance on “Inside City Hall.”

She said the city’s moving from a crisis state to a humanitarian response.

“One of the biggest manifestations of us moving this to the response level is the fact that we’re closing Randall’s Island,” Varlack said.

Hotel Merit follows Quality Inn JFK Airport Rockaway Blvd. While not a hotel, precedes the expected closure of the Randall’s Island migrant shelter at the end of February.

People near Hotel Merit said they understand why people come to New York City.

“They want to get a better life,” Hell’s Kitchen resident George Vamboukakis said.

“Having opportunities for people to land to have a better life is important, and as a neighbor I didn’t feel my neighborhood was impacted negatively at all,” Cori McGuinley said.

That impact is now lessening not only in the city but also across the state.

Officials said they also plan to close all 10 hotels they’re renting in counties outside the city by the end of the year.

“When some of this peters out, you’re going to see a drop in rates and a drop in occupancy. And some of these hotels need major work before they’re put back in inventory,” Vijay Dandapani, president of the Hotel Association of New York City, said.

Dandapani said the industry still hasn’t bounced back to 2019 occupancy levels, but owners are ready to turn the rooms over.

“They are prepared for it. Everyone goes into the hotel business knowing it’s not like a long-term lease that you have,” Dandapani said.

According to officials, the city still has 58,000 migrants in its care, which is about an 11,000 person drop off from the peak in January 2024.