NYC’s Poorest ZIP Codes Forced to Bear Brunt of Migrant Crisis, Confidential Docs Reveal; Quality of Life Tanking in NYC Communities With Most Migrant Shelters: Residents

NYC’s poorest ZIP codes forced to bear brunt of migrant crisis, confidential docs reveal:

Some of the Big Apple’s poorest ZIP codes are being forced to bear the greatest brunt of the city’s migrant crisis — 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.

Long Island City is home to a staggering 23 government-run migrant shelters — 12% of the 193 operating in New York City, according to data tallied off a confidential list of shelter sites used by city agencies.

“The city dropped a bomb on us,” said Queensbridge Houses resident Danny Beauford, whose 11101 ZIP code includes a 24th shelter in neighboring Astoria. “The [migrants] are taking over. They’re taking over all the parking with their 8,000 scooters. They’re disrespectful — peeing in front of everybody. We do that one time, and we’re going to jail for a long time.”

Three of the top five most shelter-saturated ZIP codes — which cover parts of the Jamaica, Queens and East New York, Brooklyn— are among the poorest areas in New York City, with median incomes below $37,300, according to Data Commons.

A Post analysis of an internal list of active shelters used by city agencies as of June 25 also found:

• 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. 

• Jamaica is not too far behind LIC. There’s 13 shelters in the 11435 ZIP code that includes Jamaica and neighboring Briarwood; and another seven in the 11434 section of Jamaica. 

• Manhattan’s 10036 ZIP code, which covers Midtown West, is home to eight shelters. 

• 11207 in East New York has six. 

• The 10467 (Williamsbridge, Bronx), 12206 (parts of Bushwick and Williamsburg, Brooklyn) and 11212 (Brownsville, Brooklyn) each have five.

Mayor Eric Adams’ office on Saturday told The Post the number of city shelters is now up to 217, but declined to reveal the additional locations. —>READ MORE HERE

Quality of life tanking in NYC communities with most migrant shelters: residents:

The influx of illegal migrants to the Big Apple over the past two years has meant a sea-change in the quality of life for workers and residents in ZIP codes swamped with shelters, they told The Post.

“It’s overpopulated here [with migrants] and that’s a concern,” said Maria Katirtzoglou, 38, who works for a Long Island City engineering firm next door to a hotel-turned-migrant shelter on Crescent Street.

“That’s a concern for people who were born and raised here, people that have property here, because people that do own property and then they see all this coming in, they don’t like it,” she said. “At night, I don’t feel safe in this area…It’s not safe. Things happen – robberies and knives, you know, people take out knives.”

In the 114th Precinct, which covers the shelter-saturated neighborhood where she works, robberies, assaults and other reported “major” crimes rose 12.3% during the first half of this year, compared to the same period in 2022 — a stark difference from the .5% drop in major crime citywide over the same time, records show.

Complaints to the city’s 311 hotline in the 11101 ZIP code also surged since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in spring 2022 began bussing illegal border crossers to New York and other blue states with sanctuary policies, with 15,256 lodged through the end of June – a 42% increase from 10,745 made during the first six months of 2022. There’s 24 migrant shelters in the 11101 — including 23 in LIC — the most of an NYC ZIP code, records show.

Shawarn Shields, 50, of Queensbridge Houses, said parents are afraid to take their kids to local parks and playgrounds because migrants typically race electric scooters and have sex there.

“This is not a third-world country,” said Shields. “We can’t just let anyone come into our neighborhood and do whatever the f— they want!”

Stuart Gleiber, 82, and his son Doug, 51, said the migrant shelters’ arrival in LIC is a gut punch to the community. —>READ MORE HERE

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