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   Migrants staying at the Big Apple’s controversial tent shelter at Floyd   
   Bennett Field have started going door to door in nearby neighborhoods   
   begging residents for cash, food and clothes, furious locals told The Post   
   Friday.   
      
   David Fitzgerald, 62, said he has noticed an influx of asylum seeker   
   families showing up on his doorstep in Brooklyn’s Marine Park neighborhood   
   in recent weeks asking for spare change — sparking safety fears among some   
   of his neighbors.   
      
   “There’s definitely an invasion of immigrants from Floyd Bennett Field in   
   our neighborhood and I see them sitting outside stores … outside the mall   
   and going around to all the houses in the neighborhood, knocking on the   
   door looking for money,” the retiree said.   
      
   “I certainly sympathize with their situation, but to have people knocking   
   at your door looking for food that don’t speak English, it’s annoying. I   
   don’t like it. We have never had this before, ever,” he continued.   
      
   “There is definitely a lot of nervousness in the neighborhood, that is for   
   sure.”   
      
   Ring camera footage from Fitzgerald’s home captured one of the migrant   
   families, with their kids in tow, recently knocking on his front door —   
   some four miles from the city-run shelter site.   
      
   Paul Sanzone, who has lived in the neighborhood for 30 years, said   
   migrants now knock on his door on a “regular basis.”   
      
   “I am all for charity, 100%. I’ll give you the shirt off my back, the   
   money in my pocket, but not this way. It has got to stop,” Sanzone, 56,   
   said.   
      
   He said he and his wife had been “on edge” ever since two people who   
   recently came looking for food and money were wearing what appeared to be   
   ankle monitors.   
      
   “It’s alarming,” he said.   
      
   And another local, only identified as Bronislav, told The Post a migrant   
   couple with two children had only just knocked on his door in search of   
   clothing earlier on Friday.   
      
   “They asked for clothes. I said I didn’t have and that was the truth,” the   
   58-year-old city worker said, adding that he realized immediately they had   
   likely come from the nearby shelter.   
      
   Meanwhile, other residents have been taking to a Facebook group, titled   
   “STOP FLOYD BENNETT ILLEGAL MIGRANTS,” to air their fury over the   
   panhandling migrants of late, The City reported.   
      
   Recent posts in the group called on locals to report the begging migrants   
   to 311 and urged neighbors not to “give in to the panhandlers.”   
      
   While Fitzgerald said he would normally have no hesitation calling the   
   cops on a random trespasser, he noted: “How do you call the police for   
   someone knocking at your door for food? You can’t really.”   
      
   He suggested the migrants were resorting to begging because Mayor Eric   
   Adams and the city weren’t adequately caring for the roughly 1,700 asylum   
   seekers being housed at the Floyd Bennett site. Migrants are fed at   
   shelters but have reported that often the food is poorly made an   
   unpalatable.   
      
   “These people are coming to residents of this neighborhood looking for the   
   assistance that they are not getting,” said Fitzgerald, who is an   
   immigrant from Ireland himself.   
      
   “Personally, I don’t think they should be at Floyd Bennett Field anyway.   
   It’s not a good living environment for people, certainly for families.   
   It’s just not good enough and if there is no room for them to be here,   
   then they should not be here.   
      
   “They’re gonna end up in the streets, that’s what’s gonna happen, and   
   these are families.”   
      
   City Hall didn’t immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.   
      
   The Floyd Bennett Field site, which is made up of four congregate sleeping   
   dorms, has been marred by controversy since it started housing migrants   
   last month.   
      
   Dozens of migrants refused to stay there after they were bused there by   
   the city — with some arguing the isolated site was too far from their jobs   
   and schools.   
      
   Earlier this week, several asylum seekers said they spent a sleepless   
   night at the site after a monster storm struck and caused metal bolts and   
   hinges to drop from the ceiling.   
      
   “Pieces were falling from the roof,” Leugim del Carmen Martinez Ordaz, of   
   Peru, told The Post at the time.   
      
   “The wind was so strong, it looked like the tents were going to give way   
   and be blown apart,” Venezuelan migrant Reibi Rodriguez added.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/12/22/metro/migrants-at-nycs-floyd-bennett-field-   
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