{"id":301281,"date":"2026-07-20T23:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301281\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:55:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:55:58","slug":"filthy-nyc-homeless-encampment-near-intrepid-still-largely-intact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301281\/","title":{"rendered":"Filthy NYC homeless encampment near Intrepid still largely intact"},"content":{"rendered":"

The blocks-long homeless encampment that has marred<\/a> Manhattan\u2019s West Side for weeks is still there, even after Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s seven-day deadline for tearing it down \u2014 drawing cheers from vagrants.<\/p>\n

One of the sidewalk-squatting hobos thanked the lefty mayor Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Mamdani] has more of the human aspect,\u201d said Liam, 40, a homeless man from Washington state. \u201cHe\u2019s taking into the account people, not just clumping everyone together.<\/p>\n

The homeless encampments stretch from West 34th to past West 49th Street. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n

Makeshift shelters and tents have taken up much of a 12-block stretch near Manhattan\u2019s famed Intrepid Museum for weeks. James Keivom for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like he\u2019s saying, \u2018Would I be happy with this if it\u2019s me on the street?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Officials at City Hall had no comment Monday.<\/p>\n

The Post on Monday found that much of the shoddy shantytown, which runs from 34th Street up to at least 49th Street <\/a>along the West Side, was still intact.<\/p>\n

Only a handful of its illegal structures \u2014 including one across the street from the family-tourist-magnate Intrepid Museum \u2014 had been dismantled.<\/p>\n

The West Side shantytown has irked locals and tourists for weeks while City Hall has largely looked the other way. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n

At least some of the accumulated trash has been thrown out. Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post<\/p>\n

Sanitation workers and cops have been spotted cleaning up a few areas along the makeshift skid row \u2014 but at a snail\u2019s pace.<\/p>\n

The effort falls far short of Mamdani\u2019s own policy of giving homeless services and outreach workers a week to get the occupants of such sidewalk encampments off the streets before the NYPD is allowed to move in.<\/p>\n

The deadline came and went Monday with only the sporadic enforcement occurring.<\/p>\n

City sanitation workers were spotted Monday throwing at least clothes and mattresses into a garbage truck, while cops stood by.<\/p>\n

Some encampment vagrants said their possessions had been cleared out.<\/p>\n

But many tents and makeshift shelters were still up, including at 44th, 47th, and 49th streets near 11th and 12th avenues, with about a half-dozen homeless folks milling about some of the sites.<\/p>\n

City sanitation workers start to dismantle some of the West Side homeless encampment, but only parts of it. Lone Pine Press for NY Post<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s policy bars cops from intervening in homeless encampments for seven days. Lone Pine Press for NY Post<\/p>\n

While several structures were dismantled, many still remained on Monday. Lone Pine Press for NY Post<\/p>\n

The Post first blew the whistle on the modern-day skid row earlier this month, with drugs and sex being peddled in at least one encampment area and vagrants stockpiling stolen merchandise in others.<\/p>\n

Locals have complained that the garbage-strewn camps were causing headaches for them and tourists \u2014 while the NYPD was barred from intervening at the time because of Mamdani\u2019s hands-off response to the homeless crisis.<\/p>\n

Last week, Mamdani finally said he would deal with the encampments \u2014 but couldn\u2019t say when<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The blocks-long homeless encampment that has marred Manhattan\u2019s West Side for weeks is still there, even after Mayor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[32941,2000,35138,75,84,83,57,9,24,63,103,58,82],"class_list":["post-301281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-homeless-encampments","tag-homelessness","tag-intrepid-museum","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-us-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301281","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=301281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}