Lady Gaga’s father is leading the charge against hundreds of migrants who have “taken over” his posh New York neighborhood.
- Joe Germanotta, 66, lives in The Pythian on the Upper West Side and complained about a migrant hotel moving into his neighborhood
- He has claimed that the streets are overrun with partying, prostitution and reckless behavior from the new neighbours
Lady Gaga’s father has led the charge against hundreds of migrants who have “taken over” his posh New York City neighborhood, claiming they mistreat residents.
The pop star’s father, Joe Germanotta, 66, lives in The Pythian on the Upper West Side – and just down the street, the town transformed the Stratford Arms Hotel into a shelter for 500 migrants.
He has now claimed that the streets are overrun with partying, prostitution and reckless behavior from the new neighbours.
On average, 2,300 migrants arrive in the Big Apple each week, depleting the city’s finite resources and undermining the existing social security system.
He told the New York Post: ‘There are now 500 migrants living in that dormitory. That’s when all the chaos started. Whores come and go. In the morning you see prostitutes coming out of the building.
The pop star’s father, Joe Germanotta, 66, lives in The Pythian on the Upper West Side – and just down the road, the town transformed the Stratford Arms Hotel into a shelter for 500 migrants
The Pythian on the Upper West Side, where Lady Gaga grew up
“The worst is at night. The sound. It starts at about 10am and it goes on until 4am. Making music and racing through the streets with their motocross and motorcycles.’
‘Make sure you have the right security, ensure a police presence and a code of conduct. They are guests in our neighborhood and have actually taken over.’
Germanotta said none of the UWS residents had been notified of the migrant shelter – and rubbish and needles now litter the once-clean sidewalks.
While he said the migrants are probably good people, he said their anti-social behavior was becoming a problem, and that the people who decided to put them in the building have “screwed” the local population.
They even call teenage girls as young as 14, New Jersey native Germanotta said.
The now migrant center used to house the American Music and Dance Academy.
He said of Eric Adams’ response to the crisis, “In my opinion, you should have just suspended the refugee status until we had enough housing and then said, ‘Yeah, okay, you can send some more.’
Migrants slept outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown last week
Germanotta said none of the UWS residents had been notified of the migrant shelter – and rubbish and needles now litter the once-clean sidewalks
‘It is a joke. Why doesn’t he take one of the cruise ships? The cruise ships have more people and it’s a more controlled environment.
“The city spends a huge amount of money that could be spent on building affordable housing.
“The really sad thing is that we still have some of the veterans and the homeless in the neighborhood — but we don’t take care of ours.
Asylum seekers are held before being transferred via city bus from the Port Authority bus station to housing facilities in the Bronx and Queens
A migrant family eats outside the Roosevelt Hotel, where dozens of recently arrived migrants have camped
‘They don’t get food every day. It’s really sad. I feel for them.’
Just last week, the corner of East 45th Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in Manhattan was the epicenter of the country’s migrant flow.
Hundreds lined the block hoping to get into the makeshift processing center after coming to the area on buses from the south.
The scene angered residents as they demanded that Mayor Eric Adams do more.
The Roosevelt Hotel and other hotels have become hubs for refugees – within walking distance of Times Square, the World Trade Center memorial site and the Empire State Building.
Over the weekend, the migrants were given little red tickets with numbers on them — and occasionally hotel workers would come out to call numbers to let people into the air-conditioned lobby.
Others, desperately clamoring closer to get in, had to wait outside in the New York City heat.