A new migrant shelter in New York City’s Times Square houses the busiest McDonald’s in the US.

Mayor Eric Adams is opening two more large temporary migrant shelters as the southern border crisis continues to push New York to breaking point, and President Biden has yet to step in to help.

One is due to open in the vacant Candler Tower office building in Times Square, once home to a 24-hour McDonald’s restaurant, long considered the busiest and most profitable of its kind in the US.

But the iconic fast food establishment was closed during the city’s COVID-19 lockdown in June 2020, and the building’s owner, British investment firm EPIC, reportedly signed a document in March 2022 to avoid a foreclosure.

The other shelter will be located in a six-story commercial building at 455 Jefferson St, Brooklyn.

All but one of the 103 temporary shelters currently used to house migrants are located in hotels in the five districts.

Syed Hossain, an Indian immigrant who works at a newsstand on 42nd Street near the Candler Tower, said the migrants’ move there is likely to spur business, but could also cause problems in the tourist mecca at the crossroads of the world.

“If there are protests or crime, people who come from other countries will not come back to New York,” said Hossein, 49, from Queens. “If immigrants behave well and well, it won’t be a problem… If they get jobs, it won’t be a problem. When they are given everything and they have nothing to do, that’s when problems arise.”

City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) expressed outrage at Mayor Eric Adams’ latest decision on the migrant crisis.

“Now we are going to place them in retail premises, commercial premises,” he protested. “Where does it end and when does the taxpayer get a breather here?”

Holden added, “This is a problem that the Biden administration has created, and the government should pay the bills and have a plan to feed and accommodate them.”

Details of the latest asylum plan are contained in an email that City Hall sent out to City Council members on Monday afternoon and received by The Post.

“Please be advised that the City plans to open two joint Emergency Response and Relief Center (HERRC) facilities in late March 2023 and early April 2023,” the statement reads.

The email was sent just hours after The Post exclusively reported that the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office was “fully occupied until October 2032” to process migrants seeking asylum in the US.

The nearly 10-year backlog is the longest of any ICE office in the US and raises concerns that migrants without legal asylum applications may choose New York to avoid an immigration judge as long as possible.

The opening of the new shelters comes with the upcoming 1,000-bed HERRC closure at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook ahead of the cruise season.

The migrants living there were supposed to have been informed on Monday, according to the email.

According to the email, the new sites, which will increase the total number of HERRCs to eight, will accommodate up to 1,200 single men in “congregated” conditions and will open at the end of March.

City officials estimate that $4.2 billion will be spent by the middle of next year to fight the migrant crisis.

In a statement, Adams said more than 51,000 migrants have arrived since the spring and that the city is caring for more than 31,000 people.

“We continue to do more than any other city in the country, but as the number of asylum seekers continues to grow, we seriously need support from both our state and the federal government,” Adams said.