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By OLIVIA BENSIMON
and MAX JAEGERIf you build it, they will slum.
Like the swallows to Capistrano,
junkies are again flocking to West
32nd Street near Penn Station now
that the city Department of Trans-
portation has reinstalled a contro-
versial pedestrian plaza there, ac-
cording to locals and advocates.
“It’s become a hobo jungle,” said
Guardian Angels founder Curtis
Sliwa, who said he personally has
observed people “shooting up
right into their leg, where their
ankle is” along the stretch.
The Post counted about a dozen
apparent vagrants in the plaza on
a recent weekday, many seeminglypassed out on concrete blocks.
Some appeared to be smoking pot;
none was observed shooting up.
“It’s bad out here. It’s like zom-
bieland!” said an MTA bus driver.
While the homeless are more
visible when the weather is warm,
an area worker said there weren’t
nearly as many vagrants last year,
when the plaza was not open.
“Last summer, it wasn’t so bad,”
said the worker, Lonzo S. “I used
to have my pizza [there] on the
rocks [where the junkies sit], but
now I can’t do that anymore.”
The DOT first installed a pedes-
trian plaza and benches along the
strip between Sixth and Seventh
avenues at the behest of a major
area landlord, Vornado RealtyTrust, under a 2015 pilot program.
The plaza almost immediately
became a haven for the vagrants.
When the city reinstalled the
plaza this year, it replaced the
benches with less-than-inviting
stone blocks, but that hasn’t
stopped the destitute from gather-
ing there.
“The homeless and the emotion-
ally disturbed and the junkies
have figured out how to lay out in
the rocks,” Sliwa said. “They went
to the expense of putting all this
hostile architecture... and yet the
junkies have adapted.”
There is no law against home-
less occupying public spaces.
A courtyard in front of the
nearby Church of St. Francis of As-sisi across the street — which flies
a sign heralding, “All are welcome”
— remained empty when The Post
swung by last week.
Over the five hours The Post
was on the scene, a reporter
counted zero homeless-services
workers from the city.
The Mayor’s Office said home-
less-services contractors canvass
the area “multiple times daily”
and have placed 15 people “from
this area to transitional or perma-
nent housing.”
The Department of Health and
Vornado did not respond to re-
quests for comment. The DOT did
not provide a comment.
Additional reporting by David
MeyerPol targets drunken boaters
A Long Island state law-
maker is seeking to crack
down on drunken boating by
making it a felony offense to
operate a watercraft while
intoxicated with kids on
board.
Another proposal would
revoke a offender’s license
to drive a car after a first
boating-while-intoxicated
conviction.
“Drunk boating has longplagued Long Island’s wa-
terways and destroyed fam-
ilies but it is preventable,
and we must enact laws to
deter this behavior and
punish those who thought-
lessly endanger other
lives,” state Sen. Jim
Gaughran (D-Suffolk) said
Monday at Huntington
Harbor, flanked by advo-
cates who have lost loved
ones to boating accidents.The first bill, “Leandra’s
Law,” would make it a Class
E felony to drive a boat
while intoxicated when kids
ages 15 and under are on
board. Currently, the crime
is only a misdemeanor.
The legislation also would
allow a court to suspend
both the driver’s boating li-
cense and the boat’s regis-
tration for up to two years.
Bernadette HoganSAD HAVEN: Presumably homeless individuals rest on stone blocks at the newly reinstalled pedestrian plaza on West 32nd Street near Penn Station.Robert MillerHizzoner on Hannity
Mayor de Blasio’s quix-
otic White House bid is
testing out a new Hail
Mary strategy by engag-
ing one of his harshest
critics — right-wing Fox
News host Sean Hannity.
The TV personality, a
regular de Blasio basher,
has scored his first-ever
interview with Hizzoner,
which is set to air
Wednesday at 9 p.m.Hannity has leveled
several attacks against
the lefty pol, including
posting a video on Face-
book titled “The Worst
of Mayor Bill de Blasio,”
which rips him for alleg-
edly setting a citywide
tone in which NYPD
cops can be doused by
buckets of water by
thugs without punity.
Rich Calder