Migrants booted from mini-tent city under BQE are back living there againBy Georgia Worrell and
Rich Calder
July 22, 2023
Less than a day after cops and Sanitation workers cleared out a makeshift migrant tent city under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, even more, returned to live there.
About 15 migrants were back to al fresco living Saturday, claiming it was safer than the Bronx shelter where about a dozen tent city denizens were taken the day before.
“They took us up to the Bronx to a place that was way worse than [Hall Street] shelter,” said a 36-year-old Peruvian migrant, referring to another migrant shelter at nearby 47 Hall Street where some were recently booted for brawling. “I have friends staying there, and they said it was dangerous, too — people with guns, smoking, drinking.”
After being tossed from the Hall Street shelter they and others set up three tents, a huge tarp, and multiple mattresses crammed between rows of parked vehicles under the BQE.
“We don’t want to live [in the encampment], but it’s better than the shelters,” added the male migrant, who arrived in the United States three months ago, and was among those who quickly returned Friday night.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/22/booted-migrants-defy-cops-return-to-mini-tent-city-under-bqe/