Furious New York City residents expressed their anger Monday after learning they were powerless to stop a massive 2,200 male-only migrant shelter from opening in their neighborhood, raising concerns that the new facility will make their community less safe, especially for women. 

Animated residents vented their fury during a heated Bronx community board meeting, during which the mayor’s office told them the taxpayer-funded mega shelter will open next month at a 275,000-square-foot former warehouse, according to Fox 5.

The new mega shelter will see an old 275,000-square-foot office building in the Bronx retrofitted for between $250,000 and $340,000 in order to cater to the migrants, many of whom will be transferred from the sprawling migrant tent shelter on Randalls Island, according to the New York Post, citing city records.

Furious Bronx residents expressed their anger Monday after learning they were powerless to stop a massive 2,200 male-only migrant shelter from opening in their neighborhood. (Fox 5 NY)

Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, a Democrat, said she wanted the site repurposed into a manufacturing facility to create more than 2,000 jobs.

She blasted the city for greenlighting the project before the community could gather to discuss it. 

Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams approved of the new facility. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

“The city hall administration owes us more than this meeting tonight and as your borough president I am firm in my opposition because this plan is misguided in the climate that we are working with today with a new administration in the White House it is unacceptable that we would even consider moving forward in such a fashion,” Gibson said. “People often say, ‘If you build it, we will fill it,’ so don’t tell me that the population of single adult men in the migrant system is going down and yet we’re are repurposing a building for 2,200.”

Diana Ayala, a Democratic councilwoman who represents parts of the Bronx and Manhattan, including where the shelter is set to open, said she recommended the new Bruckner Boulevard site, as well as other locations in the Bronx.

She said that the migrants have a right to shelter and the city is legally obligated to house the migrants.

The Randall’s Island migrant shelter is closing with migrants being transferred to the new Bronx shelter. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“They can’t leave them out on the street, they can’t let them sleep. On the street, unless they want to, they have to put them somewhere,” said Ayala, who praised the Adams administration’s handling of the crisis. 

Meanwhile, Camille Joseph Varlack, the city’s deputy mayor of administration, said communication could have been better throughout the process. 

“Clearly, communication could have been better before this shelter was cited, and we want to make sure that we work in partnership with you as we move forward,” Varlack said.