Migrants at hotels rely on neighbors for food & clothes

Migrants bused from the border to New York City have been walking around a Staten Island neighborhood knocking on doors and asking for food, clothes and work after they were put up in hotels there, The Post has learned.

The migrants — many of whom were not ready for colder temperatures in the Big Apple — are staying at a property in Travis-Chelsea

that includes the Staten Island Inn, Holiday Inn, and Fairfield Inn and Suites Marriott, sources and workers told The Post over the weekend.

The Staten Island Inn is completely booked with the asylum-seekers, and more buses are expected in the next day or so, a Holiday Inn employee said.

“We do not have clothing and are not eating well — we need a place to work,” Venezuelan migrant Geraldine Silva, 31, said outside the Staten Island Inn, where she arrived about a week ago after being bused north from El Paso.

“We are waiting for clothes,” the mother said, shivering beside a handful of kids and other migrants while dressed in only a T-shirt, sweatpants and flip flops.

Locals said they were never informed that so many migrants would be brought to their middleclass neighborhood at once and that the area is already overwhelmed with the sudden flood of needy families.

Mayor Adams declared a state of emergency Friday over the influx of migrants to the Big Apple, warning that the crisis was pushing the city’s shelter system to its breaking point and set to cost taxpayers $1 billion by next year.

Felipe Viera, 24, and his wife, Gilimersy Perdomo, 26, of Trujillo, Venezuela, told The Post on Sunday that they arrived on Staten Island six days ago.

On their second day here, Viera needed an emergency appendectomy, the couple said.

“Living here has been OK, but we don’t have access to medicine, and the food is not that great. It comes frozen and microwavable,’’ Viera said.

“No one has told us how long we will be here,’’ he said. “We didn’t expect it to be this cold, but that is what God decided. Everything we’re wearing is what people gave us after we arrived.”

Newcomers have been going door-to-door asking for clothes and other necessities.

Terrence Jones, a Staten Island resident and business owner, said he was caught off guard when some migrants rang his doorbell multiple times.

“They were speaking Spanish. I just said ‘I only speak English.’ It was like three times,” Jones, 56, told The Post. “They were underdressed, had slippers on, a Red Cross blanket. I thought it was weird.”

Andrew Wilkes, a computer programmer who also lives near the hotels, said Saturday that he has received multiple knocks on his door, too.

“I’ve had it happen three times. The fourth time was