Vagrant sets up City Hall encampment along Mamdani’s daily route, exploiting weak city rules

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a front-row seat to his own socialist paradise, as a cheeky vagrant seized a prime patch of Manhattan real estate and built a sprawling encampment directly in Hizzoner&…

A brazen vagrant has seized a patch of prime Manhattan real estate, setting up a sprawling encampment right in Hizzoner’s daily path — steps from City Hall.

Mark Roggemann commandeered roughly 200 square feet of busy Centre Street walkway across from the Brooklyn Bridge entrance about six weeks ago — and has wasted no time making himself at home as he exploits loopholes in the city’s lax new homeless-sweep rules.

He’s plopped down a plywood-box bed and built a makeshift fortress around it, complete with aluminum clothing rack, potted fake plants, a rolling bin he says stores hot and cold water, and Amazon delivery totes for storage. When it rains, he covers his home with a cream-colored plastic tarp.

Not only does he have easy access to Mamdani at City Hall, but his camp is at the epicenter of civic life in NYC, across the street from the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building, which houses government agencies and offices of other lefty pols, such as City Comptroller Mark Levine and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.

Roggemann didn’t choose Centre Street in the hopes of getting Mamdani’s attention, but admitted to The Post he’s shocked someone from Hizzoner’s camp hasn’t “come out” to visit — at least out of curiosity.

“I guess there’s concern [that] if they have any interaction with me at all, then it sets a precedent,” Roggemann, 50, rambled to The Post Wednesday. “If you want to speak to the mayor — come camp out in front of City Hall, which, like, sounds like a horrible plan, but with a mayor like Mamdani, that may not be the worst idea.”

Thanks to Mamdani, Roggemann won’t be getting the bum’s rush anytime soon.

Under the mayor’s relaxed homeless policies, the city does not forcibly remove people from sidewalks. Instead, social workers conduct an agonizingly slow seven-day “engagement process” before performing a “clean-up” or attempting relocation efforts.

The Department of Homeless Services slapped Roggemann with a “Notice of New York City Clean Up” on Nov.

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