Restaurant owner Joe Germanotta details the impact of the migrant crisis hitting his Upper West Side neighborhood as migrants continue to overwhelm New York City.
Restaurant owner Joe Germanotta describes drugs and prostitution plaguing the Upper West Side as migrants flood Manhattan."Ever since they moved in, it's become chaos," Joe Germanotta, a restaurant owner, said onMonday."It's really changed the Upper West Side from back when it was the seventies. We're back. We went backwards."
Germanotta also shared what he has seen in the Upper West Side neighborhood where an American Musical and Dramatic Academy residence hall is set to become a migrant shelter. "At night it starts at about 11:00. They congregate in the center of Broadway with their motorbikes. And there must be, I would say, 20 to 30 people sitting on the benches and on the wall. There's smoking, there's smoking marijuana. There's some drug dealing going on. There's prostitutes out there," he said.
According to a report from the New York Post, about 500 migrants are camped out at the Stratford Arms Hotel, one of many New York City residential buildings that have been transformed into a housing facility for migrants.
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