Overview
- New York Post reporting Saturday described a homeless couple living for about a month on 30th Avenue near Steinway Street beside a growing pile of trash.
- Neighbors and a Post reporter said the pair drank in public, had sex in view, and defecated into pizza boxes on the sidewalk.
- NYPD’s 114th Precinct said officers logged multiple complaints but lacked proof of a crime and could not remove the couple without consent or a coordinated clearance with Sanitation and Homeless Services.
- A cleaning crew hired by a nearby building reported threats, and the man told a reporter “I shoot people” while claiming to be a former Marine.
- The location sits within a short walk of four schools, and the Post’s account, later echoed by Breitbart, heightened local pressure without triggering a city removal.