{"id":139433,"date":"2026-02-20T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139433\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:05:06","slug":"deal-reached-to-revamp-nycs-roosevelt-hotel-once-used-as-migrant-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139433\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal Reached to Revamp NYC\u2019s Roosevelt Hotel Once Used as Migrant Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Pakistan agreed to work with the US to revamp the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, marking a step forward in its plans to re-purpose a building once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-04-28\/nyc-hotel-dubbed-new-ellis-island-gets-redevelopment-offer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">dubbed<\/a> the \u201cNew Ellis Island\u201d for its role in sheltering migrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Pakistan\u2019s Ministry of Finance <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Financegovpk\/status\/2024497412241273322?s=20\" title=\"statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">said<\/a> Thursday it launched a \u201cstrategic economic initiative\u201d with the US General Services Administration to handle the operation, maintenance, renovation and redevelopment of the property. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan agreed to work with the US to revamp the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, marking a step forward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10997,288,3339,8676,30426,75,1722,9,24,56,63,65,64,28479,1491,58946],"class_list":{"0":"post-139433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cities","11":"tag-coronavirus","12":"tag-general-services-administration","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-headlines","20":"tag-nyc-news","21":"tag-pakistan","22":"tag-real-estate","23":"tag-refugee-crisis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}