HOMELESS CAMP APPEARS ACROSS FROM NYU DORMS — WHY ARE SOME RESIDENTS PRAISING LIFE ON THE STREET UNDER MAMDANI?

A new Skid Row encampment popped up across the street from NYU dorms — with vagrants bragging that living on the streets of the Big Apple is “much better” under Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The 30-foot-long shantytown at East Ninth Street and Third Avenue sits just outside Ukrainian Village Park, with a long blue tarp covering office chairs, luggage and bicycles on the sidewalk, in plain sight of both pᴀssersby and the college students who live across the street, The Post has learned.

“Some people are nice, some people think we invade their space,” Raymond, 45, who lives in the shelter, said Monday. “I was in a Bowery shelter and they stole my stuff. I’d rather be outside.”

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He said roughing it on the sidewalk is “much better” since Mamdani took office.

“The past mayor had the police and they just came through and took stuff,” Raymond said. “Now they ask if we are ok and need help.”