Residents along an unsightly stretch of the Bronx are fed up with an eyesore corridor where the homeless have been bedding down in old RVs, trailers and trucks for years, The Post has learned. <\/p>\n
The \u201cBoulevard of Broken Dreams\u201d along a section of Webster Avenue has been a headache for locals for at least two years \u2014 but the desperate folks calling the rundown vehicles home said they were driven to a bare-bones existence by the Big Apple\u2019s sky-high rents<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s starting to become an eyesore,\u201d said neighborhood resident Rae Henry. \u201cIt\u2019s just too many.<\/p>\n RVs line Bronx Parkway East between Duncomb Avenue and East Gun Hill Road in the Bronx on Oct. 19, 2026. Lone Pine Press for NY Post<\/p>\n Rita Freedman poses with her dog Lucky in the Bronx on Oct. 18, 2026. Freedman has been living in her RV along Webster Avenue near Williamsbridge since November 2025. Sofia Poznansky\/NY Post<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t mind having one or two or a couple,\u201d Henry said. \u201cBut there\u2019s so many now. It\u2019s starting to become a bit too much for the neighborhood. I\u2019m used to the tractor-trailers because they\u2019re allowed to park on the street. But not the RVs.\u201d<\/p>\n Locals said the recreational vehicles and trucks began popping up in the neighborhood during the COVID pandemic, and just never left \u2014 even as cops towed abandoned cars around them.<\/p>\n The situation was reported by CBS-TV News in 2024<\/a>, but nothing has changed nearly two years later.<\/p>\n \u201cIt looks whack,\u201d said Williamsbridge resident Alex Ramos. \u201cI see them every day. It\u2019s weird. Cops came and swept up all the cars that were abandoned, so I assume that\u2019s why they haven\u2019t taken those because people live in them.\u201d<\/p>\n An RV on Bronx Parkway East seen on Oct. 19, 2026. Lone Pine Press for NY Post<\/p>\n Those people told The Post they were driven to live in RVs and trucks by the city\u2019s rents \u2014 which left them a choice between the streets, risky city shelters or the vehicles they now call home. <\/p>\n \u201cWe need housing,\u201d said Rita Freeman, who said she\u2019s lived in her RV since last November. \u201cI mean, this is absurd. This is bizarre. There\u2019s so many of us. <\/p>\n \u201cI went into hotels, I maxed out my credit card for the first time since I had it since 1994,\u201d she added. \u201cBecause I did not want to go to a shelter or the street. It\u2019s very dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n Camille said shelters won\u2019t allow her to keep her dogs, so she opted for the corridor six months ago.<\/p>\n \u201cNone of us can afford the apartments they have, and they want you to go into a shelter,\u201d she said. \u201cThey don\u2019t let you into a shelter with dogs or cats. I have three dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n Camille, 57, stands in front of her RV with a broom alongside her outdoor cat on Oct. 18, 2026. Sofia Poznansky\/NY Post<\/p>\n She said she makes ends meet by working as a dog walker and pet sitter, and is on the waiting list for an apartment after being priced out of her Westchester County home by the $1,800 monthly rent.<\/p>\n \u201cWhere do you want us to go?\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Other encampments have raised eyebrows in the five boroughs, including a row of vehicles in the shadow of Citi Field<\/a> in Queens, where vagrants drained city power and water and ran illegal car repair gigs.<\/p>\n