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NY Post
New York Post
24 Jul 2023


NextImg:Locals complain of ‘no oversight’ after assault outside NYC migrant shelter: ‘Nothing is being done’

Fed up neighbors of a Harlem migrant shelter where residents recently beat up two men say their complaints about mounting quality-of-life issues have fallen on deaf ears — and they fear the lack of oversight could lead to far worse behavior.

“You complain to the staff inside the building, it’s almost like talking to a brick wall. Nothing is being done…So when I heard about what happened yesterday, I was like, man, that’s crazy,” Tyler Horrell told The Post Monday.

“This is just the beginning of many, many more things to happen. There’s no type of oversight. There should be a curfew imposed.”

The “disorderly” group is accused of tossing objects at passersby near the migrant shelter on Central Park North Sunday morning before assaulting two men who tried to intervene.

One of the good Samaritans, 35, was shoved through a glass door after getting chased by the rowdy group, according to cops and witnesses.

The assailants were migrants staying at the shelter — which was recently converted from the former Lincoln Correctional Facility, according to sources and witnesses.

Horrell, who lives near the shelter just outside Central Park, took a shot at Mayor Adams and Gov. Hochul Monday as he pointed to the mess around his building.

“They got bikes all over the place. There’s trash all over the park.  The mailman can’t even get to the box because they’ve got bikes locked to the box,” said Harlem resident Tyler Horrell.
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“Eric Adams and Kathy Hochul, they don’t have to live this. I mean, you look around, you got a BBQ grill. They got bikes all over the place. There’s trash all over the park. The mailman can’t even get to the box because they’ve got bikes locked to the box,” said Horrell, who spoke to The Post in 2021 about jumping onto the subway tracks to save a straphanger that was shoved by a naked homeless man.

“And I’m not going to say everybody in the building is a bad element, but just like anything, you got the good and the bad. So my thing is, what is the agenda? Because Eric Adams, you have f–king fallen miserably. Kathy Hochul, your ass needs to go also.”

Rachel Luna, a senior citizen who’s lived on the block for 33 years, has also seen the migrants shift from being “peaceful” and “well-behaved” when they first arrived to “arrogant.”

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Horrell lives at 21 Central Park N, just steps away from the shelter.
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“The attitude has changed,” she said. “They’re noisy. And there’s no curfew, apparently. And the police have to throw them out of the park every night because they don’t observe the law that at 1 o’clock the park is closed.

“They are sitting on the benches all day, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but what’s the plan? Did they come here to sit on benches all day?”

Other nearby residents have claimed they’ve been catcalled and harassed by migrants.

“There’s certain things, like I won’t wear, like certain shorts past a certain time. I get cat-called. I was cat-called [by straight shelter residents] this morning,” said Anthony Cicacia, 26.

“So it’s definitely unsettling to know that if they’re beating someone up next door, that could be me.”

Ivy Len, a project manager who lives on Central Park North, said the shelter residents often go into the entryway of her building and sit around and smoke.  

“I just don’t like the foot traffic. I don’t like that they stay here, they sit there, they smoke here, they eat, and then they leave their trash,” Len said.

“It’s fair that they’re helped, but it’s unfair to the other people who have to deal with that. If they were to maybe put them in another location, away, where they’re busy and they’re not outside.

“It’s too much for this city. We’re taking on too much. Us New Yorkers, we’re taking on too much. I’m sure we’re paying for them. So I think as a New Yorker, we already have high taxes. You wanna add more to our bills? It’s not fair.”

The NYPD said Monday that one of the unnamed suspects in the Sunday incident had been issued a summons for disorderly conduct, while police continued to canvas the area for at least two more men who were said to have fled the scene on scooters.

An “active investigation” remained underway, officials said.