{"id":40910,"date":"2026-04-04T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40910"},"modified":"2026-04-04T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:23:39","slug":"boozy-homeless-honeymooners-have-sex-on-street-in-mamdanis-beloved-astoria-and-cops-cant-stop-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=40910","title":{"rendered":"Boozy homeless honeymooners have sex on street in Mamdani&#8217;s beloved Astoria &#8212; and cops can&#8217;t stop them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A homeless couple has turned a block of Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/27\/us-news\/zohran-mamdanis-rent-stabilized-astoria-apartment-renting-for-35-more-than-socialist-lawmaker-paid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zohran Mamdani\u2019s old neighborhood <\/a>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 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,\u201d said neighbor Chris Shingler.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The homeless couple appears to do everything in full view \u2014 including having sex and drinking. <span class=\"credit\">J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is primetime, work day, kids going by to school, this is right out front in the middle of the sidewalk,\u201d said the 46-year-old, who moved to the rising neighborhood with his wife in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife goes to the gym at 5:30 a.m. and she saw the woman performing oral sex on the man,\u201d he said. \u201cTough way to start your day.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>At least four schools \u2014 St. Joseph\u2019s Catholic School, PS 070Q, PS 6 and Etoiles Preschools \u2014 are all within a five-minute walk of the putrid pad.<\/p>\n<p>The Post witnessed a tense scene last week as the pair \u2014 who gave their names only as Michael and Marabel \u2014 angrily refused to move when cleaners hired by the adjacent building tried to oust them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A child is pushed past the messy mound of trash which is within a five minute walk of four schools. <span class=\"credit\">J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cF\u2013k no!\u201d roared Michael. \u201cGo f\u2013k yourself!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you bother my wife, I\u2019ll f\u2013k you up!\u201d he screamed in between guzzling Voda brand Vodka.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The homeless man who said his name was Michael barked threats at maintenance workers and gave a grim warning to a Post reporter. <span class=\"credit\">J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He also warned a Post reporter, \u201cI shoot people,\u201d claiming to be a former US Marine. <\/p>\n<p>After an hour of failed attempts and more threats from Michael, the maintenance workers gave up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/04\/01\/us-news\/democratic-socialist-nyc-councilwoman-tiffany-caban-hosting-fundraiser-for-justin-brannan-in-comptrollers-race\/\">Socialist Councilwoman Tiffany Caban<\/a>, whose office is just blocks from the site, did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Even Marabell was shocked the city allowed her and Michael to stay on the sidewalk. <span class=\"credit\">J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mamdani reversed his past opposition to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/23\/us-news\/nyc-wont-tear-down-homeless-encampments-during-historic-blizzard-mamdani-says\/\">clearing out homeless encampments <\/a>last month at the height of NYC\u2019s wintry blast that killed 19 people. But officials claim the couple\u2019s seedy sprawl doesn\u2019t qualify as an encampment because there are no built structures.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The sprawling and ever-growing pile of junk and trash stands out in the family friendly neighborhood that was recently the home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. <span class=\"credit\">J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cops acknowledged they received multiple calls about the couple but claimed they had no proof of illegal activities, and<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/26\/us-news\/mamdani-called-class-enemy-over-homeless-sweep-policy\/\"> can\u2019t take them off the street without consent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That excuse doesn\u2019t sit well with neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has to be a line in the sand where you can\u2019t allow that kind of behavior, because of the health risk because of the safety risk,\u201d said Shingler said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone\u2019s going to end up taking it into their own hands and they\u2019re going to have bigger issues than poop on the sidewalk,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Even the homeless couple were dumbfounded about how they have been able to camp with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just don\u2019t see this kind of thing in Astoria,\u201d Marabel told The Post.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/04\/us-news\/boozy-homeless-honeymooners-have-sex-on-street-inmamdanis-beloved-astoria-cops-cant-stop-them\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A homeless couple has turned a block of Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s old neighborhood into a nauseating love nest where they booze it up, have sex, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}