Growing tensions between migrants, NYCHA residents
Tensions are growing between NYCHA tenants and newly arrived migrants over the mobile food pantries coming into the neighborhoods.
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NEW YORK – The influx of migrants is being felt in one Queens neighborhood, where NYCHA tenants find themselves fighting over food with the newly arrived asylum seekers.
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“We do we have to take the butt of everything,” said Georgia Butler, a Queensbridge Houses resident. “This community is already suffering.”
The residents living in NYCHA’s Queensbridge Houses say they look forward to mobile food pantries that show up weekly.
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But over the past year, they have witnessed 8,000 migrants move into their neighborhoods and begin to make use of the limited resources available.
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“They were first on line for the turkeys this morning,” Butler said. “They tell you to be there at 11 o’clock. You get there at like 10:30, 10:45, but they are already out there. The line is from over there it’s over here.”
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Free food giveaways, especially during the holidays, have become a source of tension between long-time New Yorkers struggling to get by and newly arrived migrants who are using the system to survive.
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A month ago, one altercation got so heated between a resident and a migrant, that someone ended up in the hospital.
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