Lady Gaga's dad leads charge against hundreds of migrants who have 'taken over' his ritzy NYC neighborhood, claiming they are abusing residents, catcalling teenage girls and attracting escorts to the area
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▶️ 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 have been overrun with partying, prostitution, and reckless behavior because of the new neighbors
Lady Gaga's father has led the charge against hundreds of migrants who have 'taken over' his ritzy New York City neighborhood - claiming they are abusing residents.
The pop star's dad Joe Germanotta, 66, lives in The Pythian on the Upper West Side - and just down the street, the city transformed the Stratford Arms Hotel into a shelter for 500 migrants.
He has now claimed that the streets have been overrun with partying, prostitution, and reckless behavior because of the new neighbors.
On average, 2,300 migrants are arriving in the Big Apple each week - depleting the city's finite resources and buckling the welfare system in place.
He told the New York Post: 'There's now 500 migrants living in that dormitory. That's when all the mayhem began. Hookers are coming and going. In the mornings, you see prostitutes coming out of the building.
'The worst part's at night. The noise. It starts at about 10 o'clock, and it'll go until 4 in the morning. Playing music and racing their motocross and motorbikes up and down the streets.'
'Put the proper security in place, have a police presence and a code of conduct. They're guests in our neighborhood, and they have basically taken over.'
Germanotta said that none of the UWS residents were given any notice about the migrant shelter - and trash 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 the people who decided to place them in the building have 'screwed' the locals.
They are even catcalling teenage girls as young as 14, New Jersey-born Germanotta said.
The now-migrant center used to house the American Music and Dance Academy.
He said about Eric Adams' response to the crisis: 'In my opinion, you should have just suspended 'sanctuary city' status until we had enough housing and then said, 'Yeah, OK, you can send some more.
'It's a joke. Why doesn't he get one of the cruise ships? The cruise ships hold more people, and it's a more controlled environment.
'The city is spending a tremendous amount of money that could be spent towards building affordable housing.
'The really sad part is that in the neighborhood, we still have our share of veterans and homeless — but we're not taking care of our own.
'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 had been the epicenter of the country's migrant influx.
Hundreds lined the block hoping to get inside the makeshift processing center after coming to the area on buses from the south.
The scene left residents angry as they demanded Mayor Eric Adams do more.
The Roosevelt Hotel and others have become hubs for refugees - within walking distance from Times Square, the World Trade Center memorial site and the Empire State Building.
Over the weekend, the migrants were handed small red tickets with digits on them - and once in a while hotel workers would come out and call numbers to let people inside the air-conditioned lobby.