Fed-up NYC businesses sound off as migrant crisis causes chaos in the streets, hits shops’ wallets: ‘Enough is enough’ By Valentina Jaramillo, Georgett Roberts, Bernadette Hogan and Emily Crane
July 24, 2023
Enough is enough!
The Big Apple’s migrant crisis is spiraling so far out of control that fed-up businesses say they’re taking a financial hit as the chaotic influx of asylum seekers pouring into the city spills out of city-run mega shelters and onto the streets.
From families sprawled out on busy Midtown sidewalks, grown men brawling and even mini tent cities popping up – frustrated New Yorkers say the asylum seeker mess has now well and truly become a plague that’s showing no signs of easing.
Over the last month alone, The Post has documented asylum seekers lounging back in camp chairs on the sidewalk outside the massive Roosevelt Hotel shelter in Midtown as they sat down to eat and smoke in the sunshine.
Migrant kids have also been spotted playing outside businesses and riding their scooters up and down 46th Street – dodging pedestrians along the way.
“It has really, really, really affected us,” a distressed George Boahene, who is the manager of SAYKI Menswear, told The Post. “This is not a residential area; this is a business area.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/nycs-migrant-crisis-causing-chaos-in-the-streets-hurting-local-businesses-enough-is-enough/
