A homeless couple<\/a> \u2014 or should I say \u201cunhoused,\u201d a euphemism that implies victimhood \u2014 lives outside in filth in Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s New York. Boozing. Sexing. Using the sidewalk as an al fresco toilet.<\/p>\n260325_ Mike Turner at far left, Homeless folks living on the sidewalk outside Duane Reade 30th Ave., near Steinway St., Queens,, NY_ Credit J.C. Rice J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n
Threatening families, workers, the eyes of schoolkids and reporters.<\/p>\n
They won\u2019t move.<\/p>\n
A homeless man drinking from a bottle of vodka. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n
And authorities shrug and do nothing, claiming they can\u2019t force the filthy and aggressive pair to leave or, at a minimum, wash. Not as long as lefty policies treat them as poor, downtrodden recipients of society\u2019s disgust rather than entitled perverts luxuriating in squalor of their own making.<\/p>\n
Pretty soon, I fear, fed-up and desperate neighborhood vigilantes will drive the troublesome twosome out of Queens, where they bed down in the shadow of the mayor\u2019s former home.<\/p>\n
Because how can we live like this \u2014 when they\u2019re allowed to live like this?<\/p>\n
How did this city sink so low that laws give priority to the rights of street pervs over decent and hard-working folks?<\/p>\n
A child is pushed past the messy mound of trash that is within a five-minute walk of four schools. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n
As The Post revealed on Sunday, the dirty twosome, who give their names as Michael and Marabel, have been living on a block in Astoria for at least a month amid a mountain of garbage they created, between a Duane Reade pharmacy and a New York Sports Club.<\/p>\n
They were spotted one day by a horrified gym-goer as Marabel performed oral sex on Michael, providing free advanced sex education to students of at least four nearby schools.<\/p>\n
One morning, a neighborhood resident says, he saw Marabel holding a pizza box for Michael to poop in.<\/p>\n
The homeless man who said his name was Michael barked threats at maintenance workers and gave a grim warning to a Post reporter. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n
And when cleaners hired to work at a nearby building last week attempted to make them give up the prime real estate, a Post reporter witnessed Michael hurling a series of epithets between taking slugs from a bottle of Voda vodka.<\/p>\n
\u201cF\u2013k no! Go f\u2013k yourself!\u201d he roared.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you bother my wife, I\u2019ll f\u2013k you up!\u201d<\/p>\n
And \u201cI shoot people,\u201d he spat at the scribe, saying he served in the US Marine Corps.<\/p>\n
You\u2019d think that would be enough to cause an emergency eviction, not only for the safety of area residents, but for the health and security of the squatters themselves. Their unsanitary lifestyles and threatening behavior clearly put them at grave risk for everything from disease to exposure to the elements to bodily harm inflicted by outraged onlookers.<\/p>\n
Marabel was shocked that the city allowed her and Michael to stay on the sidewalk. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n
You would assume this kind of behavior would not be tolerated. And that Michael\u2019s agitated rantings would be enough to prompt the pair\u2019s forcible removal from the street.<\/p>\n
You would be wrong.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the couple remained in their outdoor domain. They\u2019re still living amid garbage, though some of the trash pile appeared to have been taken away.<\/p>\n
They still pose a dire threat to the people of Astoria, as well as to themselves. But at a recent community meeting, officials from the police department\u2019s 114th Precinct shockingly blamed legal loopholes for excusing the couple\u2019s deplorable living conditions and actions.<\/p>\n
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For one, city officials say their living area doesn\u2019t qualify as an encampment that can be cleared away because it does not include any built structures.<\/p>\n
Huh? So they must build a house before authorities can knock it down?<\/p>\n
This makes zero sense.<\/p>\n
Also, police, who\u2019ve received multiple calls about the couple, claim they had no proof of illegal activities. They say they can\u2019t force the cussing, defecating, threatening duo off the street without their consent!<\/p>\n
The sprawling and ever-growing pile of junk and trash stands out in the family-friendly neighborhood that was recently the home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n
I feel as if I\u2019ve entered Bizarro World: a place in which people who brazenly call for violence, and a man who boasts of wielding a firearm, are protected while the rest of us are expected to sit back and take it.<\/p>\n
This is not about money. It\u2019s not about a housing crisis. New York City spends hundreds of millions of dollars to house the homeless. Michael and Marabel could go to a shelter anytime they wanted \u2014 they simply refuse.<\/p>\n
The progressives\u2019 twisted idea of \u201ccompassion\u201d is to let the two of them drink themselves to death on the street, in full public view. It\u2019s madness.<\/p>\n
And still no comment from socialist City Councilwoman Tiffany Caban, whose office is just blocks from the nauseating campsite. No comment from any city official, all of whom are studiously protecting this couple\u2019s right to wreak havoc.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s time for a return to sanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They own the street \u2014 whether New Yorkers like it or not. A homeless couple \u2014 or should…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2000,1442,9,24,55,54,56,299,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-189013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-homelessness","9":"tag-mayors","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-opinion","16":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}