No person residing in NYC or any other place in America should be subject to unwarranted assaults. Any such attacks should be a police matter and properly prosecuted.
That said, all NYC or elsewhere permanent residents should be citizens or legal immigrants who have done the necessary paperwork to come here. Any person, found to be an illegal should be deported and forbidden to return. Anyone operating a licensed business or applying for a government benefit should be required to show real ID of citizenship or legal immigrant status.
Few are stupid enough to move into a black underclass area and open a business, let alone reside. This is the way anyone with anything is treated in the ghetto. If they were not Africans, they would have been tortured and shot by now.