Famed music star's father speaks out about migrants he says have 'taken over' his affluent NYC neighborhood

wonderwall.com:

Lady Gaga's dad — residents' quality of life has been going downhill. Joe — who's lived in the affluent area, along with wife Cynthia, for 35 years and also owns and runs Joanne Trattoria eatery there — spoke to the New York Post to explain his stance.As he tells it in a story published on Aug.

9, the problems started six weeks earlier when NYC turned the Stratford Arms Hotel — which had been a residence hall for the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and is just down the block from Joe's home — into a shelter for 500 migrants. "It was a stealth operation.

They were bused in the middle of the night, like when they flew them into Westchester, they didn't want anybody to know what was going on," he said. "It was all pretty rapid."He said that the migrants have been throwing block parties outside their hotel that run into the early morning hours, that people are recklessly riding e-bikes and scooters on one-way streets and that evidence of prostitution has emerged.

Girls as young as 14 are getting catcalled and residents are dealing with verbal abuse too, he alleged. There's also trash piling up on what used to be clean streets.