[NYPOST] An unhinged vagrant who terrorized Manhattan’s Gramercy Park neighborhood last year is still at it — and locals say the city isn’t doing anything to help despite Mayor Eric Adams’ new program to get troubled homeless people off the streets.Residents at one Lexington Avenue building told The Post management even spent nearly $4,000 on a locksmith to try to keep the troublesome vagabond from camping out in their lobby — but he somehow still found a way in.
"For the past two months the guy’s been sleeping in the vestibule area," said Abe Bichoupan, a resident of the co-op building on Lexington near East 25th Street. "He would pop in four, five in the afternoon. He would eat there, smoke."
Over the weekend, residents called cops at least five times after the homeless man broke into the compact room and defecated — only to have police let him go when he refused help.
"The police are saying that they don’t have any right to put him in an institution or whatever unless he consents to it in writing," Bichoupan said.
| If he isn’t an imminent danger to himself or others, that’s the general rule across America for those legally adult. |
The Post first wrote about the man— known as Howard but nicknamed "Cheese" by local cops because of his stench — in April, when he was spotted wandering the area and muttering to himself as he tried to get into area businesses.