Queens business owner housed EIGHTY SEVEN Senegalese migrants in basement and charged them $300-a-month each for shelter and three meals a day, netting him $313,000 in annual rent
A Queens business owner housed 87 migrants in a basement, charging them a $300 monthly fee for shelter and food, and earning $313,000 in the process, according to police.
Officials made the shocking discovery on Monday during a building inspection after a 311 call prompted an investigation in Richmond Hills, law enforcement sources told PIX11.
The caller had complained about delivery e-bikes filling up the building’s backyard, mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday.
About 40 beds were found on the ground floor and in the cellar, per the FDNY.
The migrants were transported to a migrant shelter in the Bronx and a vacate order has been issued for the building over safety concerns.
Fire officials said they eventually found that people were taking turns to sleep due to the limited number of beds.
Deputy mayor for housing Maria Torres-Springer said: ‘What we discovered last night in some ways is also symptomatic of a larger crisis that this city is facing that we’ve talked about repeatedly in terms of the housing shortage in this city.
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