NYCs vagrant camp near Intrepid growing into skid row as Mamdanis policy forces cops to stay put

Do something already!Mayor Zohram Mamdani’s hands-off homeless policy is handcuffing New York’s Finest, who are being forced to sit back while a putrid shantytown continues to grow and grow on Manhattan’s West Side.Mamdani’s new policy won’t let the NYPD clean out the lawless encampment until one week after city social workers and homeless advocates are sent in to sweet-talk vagrants who are shacking up along a 12-block stretch near the Intrepid Museum — and that only happened Tuesday despite weeks of complaints.No city workers showed up until 3 p.m., according to locals — as experts say the site reminds them of the Big Apple’s “Bad Ol’ Days.”“The mayor is too young to remember the eighties and early nineties and what a mess New York was,” former NYPD Commissioner William Bratton told The Post.“Those who don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it.

It all began with non-enforcement of quality-of-life offenses.“Remember the squeegee men at every entrance to the city?” Bratton said.

“Remember the rampant street prostitution and graffiti? Remember the 8,000 open air drug selling locations? Remember the rampant subway fare evasion? I remember, and it’s happening again.”The Post blew the whistle on the gritty encampment on Friday, but locals said the ratty tents and makeshift shelters have dotted the area for weeks, with panhandlers nagging tourists while sex workers, drug dealers and thieves ply their trades in broad daylight.The brazen squatters even tapped into public utility poles for electricity on Tuesday.“In just half-a-year, Mayor Mamdani’s policies have managed to turn the West Side into Skid Row,” city Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) told The Post Tuesday.“The administration is repeating the same ridiculous hands-off approach to the homeless that destroyed LA and San Francisco, and now we have a 12-block homeless campsite in Manhattan.“Way to go DSA,” she added, referring to the Democratic Social...