New York City will shutter a tent city that had housed immigrant men on the outskirts of Manhattan just three weeks after it spent a fortune standing the site up.

The office of Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, said Thursday that a sudden decline in the number of illegal immigrants being bused to the Big Apple from Texas was one of the reasons the city decided to close the series of tents on Randall's Island.

"While they continue to arrive, the speed at which the number of single adult males seeking asylum in New York City has slowed in recent weeks and, as such, the city will demobilize the Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center next week," the Adams administration said in a news release.

The unspecified number of immigrant men on Randall's Island will be offered a ride to midtown Manhattan, where the city will begin housing illegal immigrants across 600 rooms at the Watson Hotel.

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"The city is currently caring for over 17,500 asylum seekers, a number that continues to grow steadily. We will continue to pivot and shift as necessary to deal with this humanitarian crisis, but it’s clear that we still need financial assistance from our state and federal partners," New York's mayor said.

In early October, Adams declared a state of emergency and asked the City Council for more than $1 billion in funding to respond to illegal immigrants being dropped off on buses coming from Texas. The city said it would spend $325,000 to build the temporary tents.

The Watson Hotel housing project is the fourth humanitarian relief center created by Adams. Additionally, 58 hotels across the city have housed, and continue to house, illegal immigrants. The humanitarian centers help adults by providing medical care, food, mental health support, and permanent housing, according to Dr. Ted Long, the senior vice president of ambulatory care and population health for NYC Health and Hospitals.

Republicans in Congress railed against New York City officials after it opened five tents to house thousands of illegal immigrants on Oct. 19. It was meant to serve as a temporary housing project for immigrants who have been bused into the city through a state-funded initiative by Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) and a separate one by the Democrat-run city of El Paso, Texas.

Randall’s Island is on the border of congressional districts represented by Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Carolyn Maloney, but it technically falls under Maloney's jurisdiction.

In early September, New York City announced it had opened a "welcome center" in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in Manhattan to give immigrants a central location for information about public school enrollment, employment, and housing.

The cost was covered through a $6.7 million contract that the city entered into last month in an effort to better receive the illegal immigrants arriving from Texas daily. The site is not new construction and is housed in a Red Cross facility. Its exact cost was not clear.

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Democrats lambasted former President Donald Trump for constructing tent cities along the southern border due to a shortage of facility space to detain children and adults during periods in which more people were being apprehended after illegally crossing from Mexico.