Paul Martinka for NY Post Some 300 migrants were being housed around the corner at a 625 Union Street Holiday Inn Express which had been converted into an emergency migrant shelter by the city. Paul Martinka for NY Post The line of hungry migrants and New Yorkers in need stretched around the block Tuesday afternoon. Come and talk to the people on the line so you can see the strain that it’s putting on small nonprofits like ours.” Hundreds of asylum seekers had overwhelmed the CHiPS soup kitchen in Gowanus, Brooklyn. “We need help,” Auguste said when asked if he had any words for city officials. The kitchen - which also provides clothing - has been doing its best to deal with the influx of clients but is hoping the city can do more to assist. “It’s heart-wrenching - we try to accommodate them as much as we can with hats, gloves, and socks.” “It’s really heartbreaking to see that these migrants are coming on the line and we’re seeing the kids with no shoes, no jackets on,” said Pauline Auguste, director of food services at the group, known as CHiPS. The privately run Community Help in Park Slope has been stressed to the limit since some 300 asylum seekers moved to a nearby hotel - leaving staff scrambling to provide food and clothes and local clients worried they might not be able to get meals. NYC still receiving 10K migrants per month with 2M allowed into US under Biden despite reduction claimsĪn influx of migrants has wreaked havoc on a Brooklyn soup kitchen that serves as a lifeline for the needy in Gowanus and Park Slope, The Post has learned. Mayor Adams should not take away kids’ sports for newly arrived migrants NYC’s ‘right to shelter’ cannot survive with the state’s already strained resourcesĪrmed men believed to be Mexican cartel members wearing body armor spotted crossing southern border into Texas
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