Junkies and Migrant Squatters Turn NYC Block into Crime-Ridden Nightmare, Burn Two Homes with Stolen E-Bikes
the home after a scooter’s lithium-ion battery exploded.
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On a Brooklyn block, New York City’s most chaotic worlds have collided. Drug-addicted squatters rented an abandoned house to migrants, collecting dozens of seemingly stolen bikes and scooters. The stash eventually sparked a fire that scorched two nearby homes, The Post reports.
Fire remnants with a damaged home in the background.
Even after the August 17 blaze, the squatters refused to leave the East 36th Street house in Marine Park. They continue to occupy the property despite the fire.
“For the next two days, people were coming back again and again,” a 45-year-old neighbor told The Post, even after the city boarded up the second-floor windows and poured cement across the first-floor doors and windows.
