Not good enough. <\/p>\n
Big Apple outreach workers finally showed up at the lawless shantytown that has thrived near the Intrepid Museum \u2014 but barely put a dent in the ongoing encampment that turned the West Side into skid row.<\/p>\n
Despite days of local complaints and repeated reports by The Post<\/a>, most of the tents and makeshift shelters that have irritated locals in the shadow of the popular floating museum remained in place Wednesday, with city outreach workers doing little more than picking up some trash.<\/p>\n Five days after The Post sounded the alarm, an unsightly encampment is still in place near the Intrepid Museum. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n A dumpster on West 45th Street is filled with remnants of the grimy encampment \u2014 bags of needles, sex toys, cigarette butts and empty food containers next to Amazon bags stuffed with junk.<\/p>\n But much of the 12-block encampment remains in place. <\/p>\n Sources said on Wednesday that Mayor Zohran Mamdani is \u201cfreaking out\u201d over the unsightly tent city and \u201cscrambling\u201d to address the mess that has become an embarrassment for City Hall.<\/p>\n But publicly, the mayor has appeared to shrug off the situation<\/a>, telling reporters on Monday that he would \u201clook into\u201d the putrid encampment while it continued to grow.<\/p>\n Mamdani\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Critics said it was Mamdani who let the situation get out of control in the first place.<\/p>\n Mayor Zohran Mamdani is reportedly \u201cfreaking out\u201d over the West Side shantytown, but has been slow to act. Andrew Schwartz \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n Makeshift shelters and tents cover roughly 12 city blocks along Manhattan\u2019s West Side. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n The mayor\u2019s hands-off approach to the homeless crisis<\/a> bans the NYPD from tearing down homeless encampments until outreach and homeless services staffers are dispatched to the scene \u2014 and then cops have to wait for seven days before they can act under the policy.<\/p>\n The order to intervene in the West Side encampment only came on Tuesday, five days after The Post sounded the alarm<\/a> about trash-strewn shantytown that has the neighborhood up in arms, sources said.<\/p>\n