At the height of the migrant crisis in 2023, Mayor Eric Adams launched an initiative to offer limited but potentially crucial legal help to the thousands of migrants overwhelming New York City shelters.

The taxpayer-funded effort transformed the headquarters of the American Red Cross, near Times Square, into a go-to destination for migrants to file paperwork for asylum and temporary work permits, with hundreds of staffers helping migrants complete more than 100,000 applications.

On Friday, the city announced that the center, the Asylum Application Help Center, would close by the end of June, blaming “gaps in state funding” for migrant-related costs.

“We are disappointed to have to make the difficult decision” to close the center, Liz Garcia, a spokeswoman for the mayor, said in a statement, pointing out that it had provided assistance on over 109,000 applications for asylum, work authorization and temporary protected status, a federal program that allows migrants from certain countries to live and work in the United States.

The imminent shutdown marks the latest shrinking of the city’s response to the migrant influx, which has abated because of stricter immigration policies that have sharply halted border crossings, leading City Hall to close dozens of shelters during the past year.

More than 100 migrants are arriving in the city each week, down from a high of 4,000 last year. Still, about 38,000 migrants, mostly families with children, remain in shelters, down from a peak of 69,000 in January 2024.