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The sprawling homeless encampment on Manhattan’s West Side is a Mamdani campaign promise come to life

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The Post’s report on the fetid homeless camps springing up on Manhattan’s far West Side, near the Intrepid Museum, is the latest result of a heartless policy from Mayor Mamdani.

Before taking office, Mamdani vowed to reverse the policy of his predecessor, Eric Adams, saying he would no longer dismantle such camps and force occupants into shelters.

He couched his “holier than thou” argument in claims that Adams’ policy lacked compassion because it did not always provide permanent housing or social services.

The first fatal results of the change came last winter, when at........

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