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A homeless encampment established on an East Village sidewalk — complete with furniture — was finally broken up by the city Saturday, video shows.

The camping vagrants — who’d dragged a desk, a large headboard, a mattress and sundry other furniture under scaffolding on Second Avenue, between East Seventh and East Eighth streets — didn’t interfere as city Sanitation Department workers pulled up to start clearing the area out.

One even appeared to help the workers load the mattress into the back of a garbage truck.

Mayor Bill de Blasio claimed Wednesday the city would do “whatever it takes” to clear out encampments “right away” — but residents said the East Village spot had been there at least a few weeks.

“There was one woman who was making pee-pee and caca by the bus stop. It was very dirty and disgusting. Nobody wanted to use the bus stop,” one neighborhood resident told The Post.

Additional reporting by Dan Herrick

Sanitation workers dismantle the homeless encampment on Second Avenue in the East Village today.Dan HerrickSanitation workers dismantle the homeless encampment on Second Avenue in the East Village today.Dan Herrick
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