A big change for a Holiday Inn Express in Queens, currently used to help house the homeless.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says by 2019, the location near LaGuardia airport will be phased out.

It's part of a larger plan to end the use of hotels and private apartments for the homeless citywide.

Currently, Queens has 35 hotels that are being used as shelters, more than any other borough.

"This is an ambitious plan which builds upon investments and preventing homelessness to begin with. The city's ground breaking universal access to counsel to provide lawyers in housing court to prevent evictions which can lead to homelessness. investments in support of housing, the first several hundred units of the mayor's 15,000 units are coming online this year. The opening of additional safe have units to bring people in off the streets," said Department of Social Service Commissioner Steven Banks.

The city says it has already stopped using about a thousand private apartments as shelters, and by doing so, officials say they are on way toward ending the practice all together by 2023.