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Vagrants have turned a section of Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village into their own living room — complete with a homey rocking chair.
Witnesses say they moved in more than a week ago after being displaced from Union Square by the Christmas-gift stalls. They brought with them a pile of salvaged refuse.
One neighbor who walks his dog in the area described them as “far more aggressive and sketchy” than previous park denizens. “I figured it’d be broken up by week’s end, but nope,” he said.
A park worker said the bums “leave their junk everywhere — beer bottles, empty bottles of alcohol, you name it.”
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