A homeless couple has turned a block of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s old neighborhood into a nauseating love nest where they booze it up, have sex, and poop in pizza boxes, ignoring disgusted locals who fruitlessly beg the city to take action.
The pair have been living in a mountain of their own trash on 30th Avenue near Steinway Street in Astoria for the last month, commandeering the sidewalk between a Duane Reade and a New York Sports Club.
“I’m on the way to the gym, 8:30 a.m., the guy is squatting over a camp chair and the other woman is holding a pizza box under him to defecate in,” said neighbor Chris Shingler.
“This is primetime, work day, kids going by to school, this is right out front in the middle of the sidewalk,” said the 46-year-old, who moved to the rising neighborhood with his wife in 2007.
“My wife goes to the gym at 5:30 a.m. and she saw the woman performing oral sex on the man,” he said. “Tough way to start your day.”
At least four schools — St. Joseph’s Catholic School, PS 070Q, PS 6 and Etoiles Preschools — are all within a five-minute walk of the putrid pad.
The Post witnessed a tense scene last week as the pair — who gave their names only as Michael and Marabel — angrily refused to move when cleaners hired by the adjacent building tried to oust them.
“F–k no!” roared Michael. “Go f–k yourself!”
“If you bother my wife, I’ll f–k you up!” he screamed in between guzzling Voda brand Vodka.
He also warned a Post reporter, “I shoot people,” claiming to be a former US Marine.
After an hour of failed attempts and more threats from Michael, the maintenance workers gave up.
Socialist Councilwoman Tiffany Caban, whose office is just blocks from the site, did not respond to a request for comment.
Mamdani reversed his past opposition to clearing out homeless encampments last month at the height of NYC’s wintry blast that killed 19 people. But officials claim the couple’s seedy sprawl doesn’t qualify as an encampment because there are no built structures.
For the city to step in, police, Sanitation and DHS would need to be present for a coordinated and legally sanctioned action, 114th Precinct brass explained last week at a community meeting.
Cops acknowledged they received multiple calls about the couple but claimed they had no proof of illegal activities, and can’t take them off the street without consent.
That excuse doesn’t sit well with neighbors.
“There has to be a line in the sand where you can’t allow that kind of behavior, because of the health risk because of the safety risk,” said Shingler said.
“Someone’s going to end up taking it into their own hands and they’re going to have bigger issues than poop on the sidewalk,” he added.
Even the homeless couple were dumbfounded about how they have been able to camp with impunity.
“You just don’t see this kind of thing in Astoria,” Marabel told The Post.
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