{"id":129,"date":"2026-05-03T02:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/?p=129"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:44:14","slug":"pew-human-biohazard-camps-outside-historic-nyc-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanitystories.pics\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Pew! Human biohazard camps outside historic NYC church"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A homeless man in the East Village has everyone around him saying \u2018pew.\u2019<\/p>\n

Neighbors are calling the vagrant \u2014 who apparently has\u00a0no control of his bodily functions<\/a>\u00a0and has decamped on the stoops of an abandoned historic church on East 7th Street \u2014 the smelliest man in NYC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always rats and homeless people there, but the odor has never been so pungent as to make me gag from the middle of the block,\u201d said Raf Astor, a longtime East Village resident, who first came upon\u00a0the putrid scene<\/a>\u00a010 days ago.<\/p>\n

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The man has been wandering between the abandoned church and the park over the past 10 days.Leonardo Munoz for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That\u2019s when nabe noses first detected the unidentified man on the steps of the former First Hungarian Reformed Church in a pool of liquified poo.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I approached, I noticed what seemed to be brown and red liquid dripping down his leg and forming a puddle under one of the legs of his pants.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u00a0could\u00a0smell\u00a0him\u00a0from\u00a0down\u00a0the\u00a0block,\u201d\u00a0said Michelle Roderick, who lives on the block. \u201cIt\u2019s just a very sad situation. My fiance went up to him and asked him if he needed some help and if he wanted an ambulance to come and he refused.\u201d<\/p>\n