An influx of vagrants is turning Noho into Skid Row, according to outraged residents and workers in the Manhattan neighborhood.
Homeless people have started camping out under the profusion of sidewalk sheds surrounding local construction projects, including two young women who sleep in a red-and-white tent they pitch each night near the corner of Lafayette and Great Jones streets.
Gaunt and grizzled men have laid down cardboard bedding on Broadway near Washington Place, and a man in stained clothing has been known to hang out on a discarded sofa on Broadway near Waverly Place.
“I get so upset. I spend $4,000 a month to live where I live, and this all started since [Mayor] de Blasio,’’ seethed a 30-year-old woman who lives in the neighborhood and gave her name as Jac.
Lamenting that the quality of life there “has absolutely disintegrated,” the resident said, “I have never in my life seen this city like this . . . It’s inconceivable.”
A former city official who works in the area agreed that the neighborhood has “taken a sudden turn for the worse” — and blamed the situation on a surge of “high-end” development that’s created shelter under the scaffolding.
The ex-official described recently seeing “a guy who was totally passed out” near the Eighth Street N/R subway station.
He said he called 911 after a friend of the unconscious man told him, “It’s all right, he’s been like that for hours” — and an emergency dispatcher noted: “Oh, yeah, we know those guys. They’re regulars.”