A couple of vagrants have pitched a tent smack in the middle of Broadway to claim a street divider as their own little piece of paradise — and some of their Upper West Side neighbors are not happy campers.

The hobos, who even planted flowers outside their pop-up abode at the intersection of West 86th Street, insisted to The Post on Tuesday that “people here love us” — despite outrage over their curbside digs and the lack of city action.

“They give us money, food, everything,’’ said the 33-year-old woman, Amber, at the entrance flap to an orange tent in the middle of a paved, tree-lined divider area at West 86th Street and Broadway.

But Mark Pensiotti, 41, who lives on West 92nd Street and works nearby in the food industry, said he was furious at the set-up, which is yet another blatant sign of the city’s decline.

“This is so f–ked up!’’ he said.

Pensiotti watched as a worker in a silver homeless-outreach SUV stopped by the scene to deliver bottled water to the vagrants — and two NYPD cops in a marked SUV looked on nearby.

The officers were only two of the slew of NYPD officers who came and went along the street through the day, at times chatting with each other as they looked at the tent before simply moving on.

“You see that?!” Pensiotti raged as the pair of officers seemingly ignored the tent.

“What the f–k’ are we doing?! … This is f–king nuts! We’re gonna end up like LA!” the resident said, referring to the California city’s massive controversial homeless encampment.

Sally Richardson, 77, a retired fashion-industry worker who has lived on West 86th Street since 1969, added of the tent hobos, “This is extreme!

“It’s getting close to the 1970s,” she said of the state of the city — where random violent attacks on the street have left New Yorkers in fear and businesses are fleeing left in right for greener pastures.

“But back then, I was never afraid to take the subway,” Richardson said. “Today, I’m worried about being pushed or slashed.”

Still, Amber, who lives with her male partner and another man in the tent, suggested she and her roommates are welcome guests in the area.

“A lady came yesterday and gave us this tent,’’ Amber said.

The vagrant talked about her collection of flowers outside her digs as if discussing a home garden.

“I have a bunch of flowers in the back,’’ said Amber, who is from Maryland.

She and her partner, Devonte, 28, of Durham, NC, said they have been living on streets in the area for several weeks, mainly in boxes — playing a cat-and-mouse game with some city workers.

“We’ve been here a month, and Sanitation keeps taking our box!’’ Amber said.

“They sent six cops, four Sanitation workers and a sheriff the other day. Just for three people living in a box. I built it here in the bushes, on the corner, they just keep taking it!”

But she and Devonte claimed that many regulars in the area have welcomed them with open arms.

Devonte talked about local bus drivers and taxi hacks as if they were old family friends, saying the couple unzips their tent on the side just “so we can say hi to the bus drivers that go around.”

When the pair was previously living down the street in a box, “One of the bus drivers had people on the bus, and he stopped, and it wasn’t even a right stop,’’ Devonte said.

“He got off the bus. He gave us 40 bucks. Yes! Forty bucks!’’ … And got back on the bus and kept going.”

A female bus driver also brought them McDonald’s, he said.

“The crazy part about it is, cars will be coming, and they will slow down right here and block cars from even going up the block … and they slowly down roll the window, give us stuff or greet us,’’ the vagrant said.

“Sometimes we get an overload of food.’’

The couple said that to go to the bathroom, they use a local Methodist church or McDonald’s.

As the pair talked, the sound of subway trains loudly rumbling beneath them through a grate drowned them out, forcing them to stop for a few seconds as they nodded their heads up and down as if listening to music.

“The train gets loud,’’ Amber admitted.

But she said they don’t mind because the subway “has a beat to it,’’ which often lulls them to sleep.

Amber said the woman who gave them the tent frequently checks on them and recently gave them a piece of paper with information on it about jobs at a farm.

The homeless woman said, “We’re trying to get jobs … but it’s hard, in the situation we’re in, to have a job.’’

Some local residents told The Post they are behind the pair — and their tent home.

“I’d rather see this, that they be protected, than sleeping on cardboard,’’ said James Merkin, 64, who lives nearby.

“ A tent here and there isn’t bothering anybody. In Seattle, they’re building little houses for these people.”