It’s a bittersweet commencement to their American Dream.

Hordes of recently arrived South and Central American migrants are descending underground to peddle candy in subway stations and aboard trains crossed the Big Apple — often with babies strapped to their backs — successful bid to scrape by.

Maria Vaca, 25, who connected Friday had been successful New York for conscionable 8 days, said she needed wealth to wage rent to her relative successful the Bronx wherever she was staying with her hubby and 3 kids. She said she collected $70 Thursday.

“I was told radical bargain candy here,” Vaca said of the 59th Street-Columbus Circle presumption wherever she was joined Friday by her 6-year-old daughter, who clung to her leg, her eyes wide.

Another mom, who declined to springiness her sanction and said she was successful municipality for lone 15 days, hawked $2 bags of M&Ms and Skittles astatine the aforesaid station, with her toddler girl bundled up and strapped to her back.

“Those of america who conscionable got present figured retired that we tin marque wealth this way,” she said, adding that she tin marque upwards of $80 a day.

Newly arrived migrants are selling candy successful the 59th Street-Columbus Circle subway station.Helayne Seidman

The peddlers are among the tidal question of caller arrivals who proceed to flood into the Big Apple, a situation that is straining shelters and transient hotels and could outgo the metropolis up to $2 billion. Between June and aboriginal January, much than 36,000 migrants person travel to New York City.

The caller arrivals selling sweets told The Post they were struggling.

“Some days we person nary nutrient to eat, nary wealth to bargain food,” said 1 tearful mom, who gave her sanction lone arsenic Alexandra.

Migrants selling candy are among the tidal question of caller arrivals who proceed to travel to New York City. Michael McWeeney

Her household arrived successful New York City by autobus a week earlier aft making an arduous travel from Ecuador. She said they were robbed of each their wealth successful Mexico and they were staying astatine a Bronx shelter.

Her husband, Arturo, said a kind-hearted structure idiosyncratic initially gave them a container of candy — worthy $100 — to sell. Now the mates and their 2 nephews instrumentality out, taking antithetic trains, and walk astir 9 hours a time trying to marque a buck.

Alexandra, who had her babe girl strapped to her backmost portion she sold candy connected the C train, said it was hard to cod capable wealth to bargain much candy.

A straphanger astatine the 59th Street Columbus Circle subway presumption fist bumps a 5 twelvemonth aged Equadorian miss with her ma selling candy astatine the subway station. Helayne Seidman

Maria Vaca, 25, with her daughter, 6, selling candy successful the subway conscionable days aft arriving successful New York. Helayne Seidman

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An Ecuadorian migrant, with her kid successful tow, selling candy successful the subway. Helayne Seidman

A woman, who had her babe girl strapped to her back, said it was hard to cod capable wealth to bargain much candy. Helayne Seidman

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“We archer the pistillate moving [at the supermarket], we person nary money, we can’t wage for it, and she volition acquisition them to us,” she said.

Patricia Condor, 35, different newcomer from Ecuador who was selling cocoa astatine the Times Square presumption Friday, said she arrived present by autobus connected Tuesday with her hubby and 3 kids and the household was staying with a relative successful Brooklyn.

Condor said she bought a container of chocolates with 60 bars for $40 from different migrant and had been astatine the subway halt since 8 a.m. trying to crook a profit. By 3 p.m. she had sold lone astir 10 bars astatine $2 each.

A woman, who had her babe girl strapped to her back, said it was hard to cod capable wealth to bargain much candy. Helayne Seidman

She said she hadn’t eaten oregon utilized the bath each day.

“I don’t cognize wherever I tin spell for one. It’s excessively large and overwhelming here. I americium doing immoderate I tin and warring to provender my children,” she said, wiping distant tears. “It’s hard to gain money, to find a job. It’s pugnacious surviving here.”

Some straphangers took pity connected the sellers.

One pistillate asked a vendor’s young girl to assistance her prime retired candy. She selected a container of M&Ms, and past handed the miss 3 $1 bills and gave her a archetypal bump.

Another commuter astatine Columbus Circle gave $1 to 1 of the children with a motion and a grin and walked distant without taking immoderate candy.