Almost two dozen disheveled squatters tormented and terrorized the residents and businesses surrounding a vacant $4 million Brooklyn brownstone they commandeered.
The young miscreants stole packages off neighbor’s porches, threatened passersby, damaged private property, got high on the stoop, and set off fireworks in the early morning hours, neighbors told The Post.
The three-story building at 60 S. Fourth St. in South Williamsburg was finally emptied this week, after police forced the squatters back out onto the sidewalk. They also arrested one of them: Ryan Grewal, 26, who was charged with felony criminal mischief for damaging a motorcycle outside nearby JANE Motorcycles, an NYPD spokesperson said.
Grewal told police he lived at 60 S. Fourth Street.
“They terrorized this whole neighborhood,” said P.J. Ximenez, the building’s new manager.
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