Thread: More than 75 migrants — most from Senegal — discovered living in cramped NYC basement

More than 75 migrants — most from Senegal — discovered living in cramped NYC basement where they sleep in shifts





Story by Nolan Hicks, Steve Janoski • 1h

February 27, 2023



More than 75 migrants have been living in a cramped basement below a furniture restaurant in South Richmond Hill, Queens — where beds are so in-demand that only half can sleep there at one time, city officials said Tuesday.

Fire prevention inspectors discovered the illegal subterranean boarding house Monday when they were called to 132-03 Liberty Avenue to investigate reports about a large collection of e-bike batteries, according to the FDNY.

That’s when they found 40 migrants sleeping in the building’s basement — and realized that the true number of inhabitants was actually twice that.







Migrants found living in a cramped basement of a restaurant in South Richmond Hills, Queens. Obtained by NY Post© Provided by New York Post








Only half of the 80 migrants can sleep in the basement at one time. Obtained by NY Post© Provided by New York Post



“A further probe revealed that up to 80 individuals have been living there, taking turns to sleep due to the limited space available,” fire officials said, adding that it issued a vacate order for the building.

The building owner, Ebou Sarr, 47, told WPIX that he was charging migrants $300 per month to live in his little hostel.







Fire inspectors were called to 132-03 Liberty Avenue to investigate reports of a large collection of e-bike batteries. Paul Martinka© Provided by New York Post





FDNY inspectors outside of the illegal boarding house. Paul Martinka© Provided by New York Post



Most of the migrants are from Senegal, he said, claiming he was giving them breakfast, lunch and dinner.

“The city is saying that they have no place for these people,” Sarr told the network, which first reported on the setup. “It’s not true.”








The tight basement the migrants were living in. Paul Martinka© Provided by New York Post








Most of the migrants are from Senegal. Paul Martinka© Provided by New York Post



Inspectors from the city Department of Buildings found that the first-floor commercial space and the cellar had been illegally converted into a makeshift bunk house replete with 14 bunk beds and 13 regular beds packed together on both floors, officials said.




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This is disgusting! They need to be sent back home. We are going to have a massive outbreak of infectious diseases.

Are they even washing the bedding? Bed bugs, lice, scabies.

They cannot afford to live here.


Why don't they give them a bus ride and Ferry tickets to Martha's Vineyard and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware?

Plenty of hotels, B&B, rental accommodations for them to sleep there.

I am sure Biden, Harris, Mayorkas, Pelosi and Schumer can take them in their homes.

Beezer
our hospital are pack with Illegal wall to wall & they don't pay we have to pay it all BS