The city finally cleaned up the vile Queens hovel belonging to the Big Apple’s most notorious homeless lovebirds — only after The Post reported about the shocking eyesore — but left behind a main source of the pigsty.
Marabel and Michael — the booze-guzzling, sex-having, sidewalk-defecating duo who turned 30th Avenue near Steinway Street into their personal playpen– had their encampment in Mayor Mamdani’s old Astoria neighborhood cleaned out twice this week, delighting locals who had dodged the gross scene for over a month.
By Friday morning there was no trace of their mess, but Michael was still on the scene, having refused help after authorities took Marabel to a hospital, he said.
“I’m waiting for her here. I hope she’s okay,” Michael, who has claimed to be a former Marine, told The Post.
The pair were rousted Wednesday by the Department of Homeless Services, the NYPD, and Sanitation Department, after The Post’s sex
The randy couple initially moved some of their homely heap just down the block to an even busier stretch of 30th Avenue, and spent a day in front of a fertility clinic.
“This summer is going to be great because it’s the 250th anniversary of America. It’ll be good for people like us who like to party,” Marabel said Thursday.
By that evening, the new love nest was also gone — but Michael, who rejected offers to be taken to a shelter, said he had no plans to leave the prime real estate.
Chris Singler, a local who witnessed Michael defecating in a pizza box and said his wife saw the pair having sex in the middle of the sidewalk, was grateful the mess was gone — at least for now.
“Very relieved to have the street cleaned up. Getting up and going to the gym at 5:30 a.m. is hard enough without having to dodge excrement on my way through a homeless orgy,” the 46-year-old said.
Astoria real estate executive Charles Sciberras blamed Mamdani’s kid gloves approach for the spiraling problem.
“You’re killing business. The big problem is the mayor, he’s a loser,” said Sciberras. “[Mayor] Adams did it very simply. When they had a person they removed them.
“They’re gonna come back. Its a revolving door,” the 75-year-old said. “You can’t get rid of them.”
