Junkies, migrant squatters turn NYC block into a crime-ridden nightmare, starting blaze with stolen e-bikes that torched 2 nearby homes

The worst of New York City’s worlds have collided on one Brooklyn block – where junkie squatters rented out an abandoned home to migrants, whose dozens of apparently stolen bikes and scooters sparked an inferno that scorched two neighboring homes, The Post has learned.

But even the Aug. 17 conflagration couldn’t keep the squatters away from the East 36th Street abode in Marine Park.

“For the next two days, people were coming back again and again,” a 45-year-old neighbor told The Post, even after the city boarded up the second-floor windows and poured cement across the first-floor doors and windows.

Neighbors estimated around 10 junkies and an unknown number of migrant squatters frequented the dilapidated two-story, three-bedroom duplex, which was built in 1925.