Lawless NYC homeless encampment near Intrepid grows to 12 blocks as locals plead for officials to step in

A grotesque homeless encampment continues to expand on Manhattan’s West Side and now covers 12 city blocks with theft, drugs and prostitution flourishing in broad daylight, The Post has learned.Dozens of tents and makeshift shelters now extend from 34th Street to 46th Street along 11th Avenue, a worrisome eyesore for local workers and residents as well as tourists lining up to visit the popular Intrepid Museum — with City Hall turning a blind eye and NYPD cops zipping by and doing nothing.“We cant get rid of them,” one city parks enforcement officer said Sunday.“These ones here are stealing everything.

They stole our key for the hose.They stole our ladder.

They take what they can.And there are escorts in there too.

Prostitutes.I see them, they’re right there.“Definitely getting worse,” she said.

“People stopped parking here.People are scared to park here.”Industrious vagrants lounge on stolen couches, display pricey electronics and other goods — including Broadway theater lights and high-end telescopes — and even peddle drugs to sex workers who also ply their trade inside the shantytown or filthy public bathrooms, locals said.At one tent sex workers regularly stopped by throughout the day for customers or drugs — or both.“This is crazy,” said one supervisor at the nearby Jacob Javits Center.

“The cops and the sanitation guys and the outreach guys, they clean up one spot and after that day, the next day they’re over here.Then they’re over there.

They’re kind of just spreading around.“The scariest parts are on 36th and 37th right now,” he said.“It’s just heroin addicts.”“It stinks,” a Javits maintenance worker added.

“They were setting up in the park at 3 this morning and it’s just too much.It’s getting bad again, very bad.“We kicked them out, now they’re over here,” he said.

“One thing is for sure though, there are more today than there were last month, that’s for sure.”The Post blew the wh...