Hip 4-star NYC hotel converted into migrant shelter, irking locals
Some of the Big Apple’s poorest zip codes are being forced to bear the greatest brunt of the city’s— including a Queens neighborhood saddled with more shelters than any other part of the five boroughs, internal data kept from the public but obtained by The Post reveal.
Queens is home to 70 – or 36% – of the 193 shelters that currently host 65,300 migrants under city care. Another 49 shelters are in Manhattan, 44 in Brooklyn, 25 in The Bronx and five are on Staten Island. Yet the adjacent 11109 zip code in LIC – a skyscraper-filled community that offers spectacular waterfront views of Manhattan’s skyline and has among the NYC’s priciest real estate – doesn’t have a single shelter.Long Island City, Queens is home to a staggering 23 migrant shelters. Nearly all of them are clustered near two public housing projects. The 11101 zip code that includes this section of LIC has 24 shelters, tops in NYC.
“People from the projects don’t even get food,” he said. “ come early and tie their little carts up to a gate to hold their spot; then people from the projects show up and are like ‘whose carts are these?'” Nearly 80%, or 153, of the shelters documented in the confidential list are former hotels and other lodging establishments like The Roosevelt in Midtown that are being subsidized by taxpayer dollars.The others include houses of worship, recreation centers – as well as controversial pop-up “tent city” complexes erected to house 3,000 migrants on
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