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Migrant kids have also been spotted playing outside

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The situation outside the suit store, which operates on the ground level of the Roosevelt, has escalated so
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Migrant kids have been spotted in recent weeks playing outside businesses and riding their scooters up and down 46 th
Street outside the Roosevelt Hotel mega shelter in Midtown.
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Scooters parked outside of the Roosevelt Hotel on July 13, 2023.

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In scenes reminiscent of an open-air market, men and women staying at the Roosevelt shelter – which is
also the city’s main intake site — have been pounding the pavement hawking anything from t-shirts, jeans
and shoes to coffee and snacks to fellow migrants and passersby.

“It’s af–king eyesore. You have to zigzag, do a little dance sometimes to get past there without bumping
into anybody,” a 46-year-old finance worker raged as he commuted home.

“I’m not saying don’t put them somewhere, but here in this neighborhood where they’re turning the place
into a dump? They can stay inside, they can go to the park, but you don’t own the sidewalk, you don’t take
it over. It’s too much.”

A group of migrants sit in the middle of a sidewalk outside the city’s latest mega shelter at 47 Hall Street in Brooklyn’s
Clinton Hill neighborhood.
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Dozens of motorcycles and bikes now also line the entire block outside the Roosevelt and the nearby
Row Hotel mega shelter, with asylum seekers delivering food to earn cash amid lengthy delays in work
permits being granted.

Large groups of men have been spotted in recent weeks crowding around their bikes, often spilling out
onto the street, as they await delivery slots.

“It’svery bad. It’s terrible. It’s a bad image for business,” the owner of a jewelry store near the Roosevelt
said of the growing crowds. “People don’t want to come around here, and don’t blame them.” I

“Inthe morning, it’s messy – cans, food, everything. We have to clean it up. They sit in front of the
entrance and I have to ask them to move. They park their scooters and bicycles in front of our
business. They don’t care.”

Migrant children were spotted riding their scooters and skateboards along the sidewalk near The Row hotel shelter in
Midtown.
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A little girl outside of the ROW hotel in Manhattan where migrants are being housed on July 13, 2023.
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He added: “I have no choice but to live with it.”

The Post witnessed nearly a dozen illegal e-bikes being seized by the NYPD from outside the Row shelter
late Sunday, angering many of the asylum seekers outside.

Up near Central Park, the accumulation of bikes outside the shuttered jail-turned-migrant shelter at 31
Central Park North has also become an eye-sore and a source of major complaints for residents.

“I’ve called 311 on the bikes and scooters, and the police cleared them out, but today they are right back
here,” said Rachel Luna of the conditions outside the Lincoln Correctional Facility in Harlem.

Things took a violent turn at the same shelter Sunday morning when a group of “disorderly” migrants
hurled at passersby before beating up two men who tried to intervene, according to police and witnesses.
One local who intervened, a 35-year-old man, was hospitalized after the migrants shoved him through a
glass door of an apartment building entrance.

Outside the 47 Hall Street shelter, migrants have started hanging up their laundry on steel barricades.
Gregory P. Mango

Meanwhile, conditions outside the city’s latest mega-shelter at 47 Hall Street in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill
neighborhood – just steps from where a mini tent encampment was erected last week — are just as dire,
residents and local business employees say.

Migrants staying at the shelter, which is designed to cater to roughly 2,000 single adults, have taken to
hanging their laundry on steel barricades erected along the sidewalk, milling about on the streets and
smoking in a nearby children’s playground.

“The vibe has shifted,” an employee at an adjacent motorcycle store said.

Some migrants who were recently booted from the Brooklyn mega shelter set up a mini tent encampment under the near
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Gregory P. Mango

“There are a few hundred migrants just loitering around, sleeping in the courtyards, leaving their garbage
all around the store and in the courtyard. They hang their clothes outside. It makes the place looks untidy
and unwelcoming.”

The employee added: “We have had to hire a separate security guard to prevent [migrants] from coming
in the store or loitering outside … It’s clear our sales have been affected. Not only are we losing business,
we also have to spend extra money on third-party security.”

Some asylum seekers, who were recently booted from the shelter for fighting, opted to set up a mini tent
encampment under the nearby Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Their makeshift shelter was promptly torn
down by city workers last Friday – only for the migrants to return the following day.

Nearly a dozen illegal e-bikes were seized by the NYPD from outside the Row shelter late Sunday.
Paul Martinka

Mayor Eric Adams insisted as recently as Monday that he wouldn’t allow the Big Apple to become like
other major cities with tent encampments popping up everywhere, saying: “We’re not having that here in
New York.”

“I everyone last year, ‘This migrant crisis is going to come to a neighborhood near you.’ That day has
told
arrived. It’s going to come to everyone’s neighborhood,” the mayor warned as he doubled down on
previous cries for federal aid in dealing with the mounting crisis.

“People need to focus their attention to Washington, DC. A national problem should be a national solution.
It should not be New York City’s solution,” Adams said.

Asylum seekers have been parking their bikes outside the Roosevelt and Row shelters. They have taken to delivering
food to earn cash amid lengthy delays in work permits being granted.
Paul Martinka

City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island), however, lashed out at Adams for pushing the
Big Apple as a sanctuary city in the first place.

“The problem is those who demand we continue to be a sanctuary city have no plan other than to spend
us into gross deficits,” Borelli told The Post.

“They don’t have an effing plan other than that, period. We simply have to stop paying. We have to stop
signing leases with hotels, we have to stop building HERRCs! Enough is enough.”

City Councilman Ari Kagan (R-Brooklyn) also weighed in, arguing the current situation wasn’t sustainable.

“We can no longer accept every day more and more people. We will not be able to handle it ourselves.
We don’t see the end of it,” Kagan said.

“The idea was not that New York City accepts everybody, 1000s a day, into the city. We don’t have
capacity to accept all these people.”

Additional reporting by Khristina Narizhnaya

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