Homelessness- (She Runs This Town)

 

Homelessness is perhaps the worst decease ever 

This homeless hoarder with a block-long caravan of grocery and laundry carts was movin’ on up — really slowly — along the West Side Tuesday as area workers and residents looked on in disbelief.

It took Sonia Gonzalez hours to move her staggering collection of junk a few feet at a time as she made her way north on Tenth Avenue from West 39th Street.

“[I’m going] uptown, where I belong,” Gonzalez, 60, told The Post as she shouted at annoyed passers-by in Spanish.

“I got all day.”

 The Puerto Rican native hangs out along the avenue in Hell’s Kitchen every day, and is constantly on the move with her stuff.

On Tuesday, she was hauling 20 grocery carts, 14 laundry carts, eight suitcases, two large crates and one dolly.

They contained mostly bottles and cans, but also everything from an air conditioner, a pink and blue Hannah Montana kids laundry hamper and a pair of New Balance sneakers to shower curtain rods, a wire shelving unit, a packaged down comforter, a can of soybean oil and wooden pallets and suitcases that were tied to her shopping carts with rope and plastic twine.

Gonzalez moves the carts one or two at a time — pulling them about 15 to 20 feet up the block by the front end and also pushing some from behind.

Construction workers at a new high-rise at 10 Hudson Yards were stunned by the ultimate pack rat.

“Someone needs to call Sanitation and have that crap thrown out,’’ a hard hat griped. “You don’t want to go back to what [the neighborhood] was 20 years ago.”

At about 3:30 p.m., a flatbed construction vehicle attempting to turn left onto 41st Street from 10th Avenue was unable to make the corner because Gonzalez was blocking its path with her rubbish.

Also blocked was an air-conditioning truck, whose driver fumed, “This stinks. She needs to move her stuff!”

Gonzalez also blocked a fire hydrant north of 41st Street, about midway up the block, for nearly three hours.

Earlier in the day, at about 12:40 p.m., she munched on a gyro as she took a 25-minute break.

“Sometimes people feel bad for me and give me $5 or $10,” she said. “I only take it to make them not feel bad.”

A doorman between 41st and 42nd streets said Gonzalez has been making her trek around the area for years.

“[It’s a] funny thing that cops were talking to her now, because I’ve never seen a cop talk to her before,” he said.

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