New York Post

Con‘tent’ed homeless duo

- Stephanie Pagones and Bruce Golding

The homeless couple pictured at right really puts the “camp” in encampment.

Two vagrants recently began living out of a tent in Midtown Manhattan — and are so happy with their new home, they’re literally dancing in the street.

Ronald and Jermaine Wright, who met while panhandlin­g on Christophe­r Street in Greenwich Village and are now married, said they found the red-and-blue fabric shelter in a trash bin about a week ago.

They set it up in front of a vacant lot and under a tree on East 30th Street because the site is “secluded,” said Ronald, 54.

“This is a new spot for us,” said Jermaine, 40, who added that before finding the tent, he and Ronald just bedded down on pieces of cardboard, wrapped up in blankets or a tarp.

Ronald said they have applied for an apartment through Breaking Ground, a nonprofit that provides “supportive housing” to chroni- cally homeless people.

But meanwhile, they said they prefer the solitude and safety of their tent to the city’s shelter system.

“Shelters, they got crackheads, they got dope fiends,” Jermaine said. “I’m just trying to, you know, be somewhere safe. An environmen­t where I don’t have to worry about missing my stuff.”

They even broke into an impromptu cha-cha while speaking with The Post.

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