City clears homeless haunt after Post report

Sanitation workers finally cleaned up a homeless hangout in front of a city-owned building Wednesday — hours after The Post revealed the deplorable conditions there.

The crew hauled off rotting trash and other junk littering the sidewalk at 321 W. 116th St., where a homeless couple had been living under scaffolding for months and a neighbor said a cop blamed “directives” from Mayor de Blasio for the delay.

Sanitation worker Eric Stephens, 55, said he got a call from his supervisor to “do this special favor for her” and clean up outside the boarded-up building, which the city seized for unpaid taxes in 1978.

Stephens said he has noticed a surge in vagrants living on the streets over the past year, adding that “it’s especially bad this summer.”

“We’re seeing more and more homeless people and they’re telling me that the shelters are getting too dangerous. They’re saying the K2 [synthetic marijuana] thing is really getting to be a problem and I believe them,” he said.

Tyler Trinh, 26, who co-owns the Harlem Heirloom home-decor shop around the corner, called the clean-up effort “definitely a first.”

“I’ve seen the city services show up and sit in their cars and turn a blind eye, but I’ve never seen them actually show up and clean up all the garbage,” said Trinh. “I think this is going to help the neighborhood.”