“Somewhere down the line, this situation has touched everybody,” the owner of a pizza shop near the Roosevelt Hotel said, of New York’s migrant crisis. “Your father, your grandfather, great-grandfather. . . . This country was founded by immigrants.”
Save this storyThis week, outside the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, hundreds of asylum seekers from all over the world languished in a slow-moving line, forced to stand in the sun and sleep on the sidewalk. A nineteen-story building with about a thousand rooms, the Roosevelt opened in 1924 and closed during the pandemic. It is currently being used by the city as an intake center for migrants, from Venezuela, Senegal, Burundi, and elsewhere, who have nowhere else to go.
One New Yorker materially affected by the situation was Dino Redzic, the co-owner of Uncle Paul’s, a pizzeria situated in a storefront on the ground floor of the Roosevelt. All week, people had been sleeping outside Redzic’s shop, and business had been down. But Redzic hadn’t minded. “I came illegal, just like they did,” he said, when I popped in to ask how things were going. “I was just as unwelcome as they are.
At Uncle Paul’s, Redzic’s nephew was working behind the counter. The daughter of a Montenegrin friend of his was waiting tables. The pizzeria sells pies by the slice, and cold drinks out of a case near the register. It was rush hour, and a line was starting to form. Redzic was outraged thinking of how the migrants outside his door were being treated. “To be frank with you, I think we all have forgotten that somewhere down the line, this situation has touched everybody,” he said.
Before the pandemic, Uncle Paul’s was open twenty-four hours a day. “It was a beehive at all hours,” he said. “took that away.” Redzic and his partner gave away pizza to first responders and essential workers. They endured the emptying out of midtown. They were just starting to get back to something like normal when the migrants began to arrive near his restaurant. “The business is cut in half,” he said.
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