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NextImg:Exclusive | Boogie dump Bronx: Deputy Mayor fights  blight, towing dozens of vehicles

The NYPD is getting rid of bad car-ma!

Cops towed an eye-popping 60 vehicles, — including cars, vans and campers — along a neglected half-mile stretch of Webster Avenue in the Bronx that looks more like a junkyard out of “Sanford & Son”

The clean-up happened earlier this month as part of the city’s new Quality of Life policing program and was led by Deputy Mayor Kaz Daughtry, who was aided by the NYPD and several other city departments on Sept. 5.

“It’s not fair that residents have to drive around in circles in the middle of the night looking for a parking spot,”  said Daughtry, as he directed a collection of cops and tow trucks on Webster Avenue between East 204th Street and East Gunhill Road. “People utilize the streets here as their own storage. It’s not fair.” 

The operation found multiple ghost cars with license plates that didn’t come back to the vehicles to which they were affixed, a camper that was being used as a homeless shelter, a van that apparently acted as a bike repair business and several illegal car washes along with a trash strewn lot.

Cops popped opened the back door of a white van with Mississippi plates and found a treasure trove of bicycles and parts.

“It’s a bike repair shop,” one of the NYPD officers said. 

Residents who live in buildings atop a hill across Webster Avenue near 205th Street looked down clapping and cheering as tow trucks rumbled into view.

A man in a passing car shouted: “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” from his open window.

Police officers then zeroed in on a camper that had two children’s bikes parked next to it. The windows were obscured from the inside and the trailer’s side door was locked. 

But they found the front door open, and a cop crawled inside to make sure it was empty.

“There’s nobody in the bedroom,” the cop said, explaining that there was a bed in a cordoned off area in the back.

A man walking by told officers he had seen a pregnant woman with two kids living in the vehicle. The man, who identified himself only as Juan, 29, told The Post he is staying in a nearby shelter. 

“I’ve seen them three or four times,” he said.

A tow truck came and took the camper away.

Daughtry paused occasionally to shoot video for Instagram.

“As you can see, a promise is made, a promise is kept,” he said into a handheld video camera operated by one of his employees. “We’re just getting started. We’re outside in the Bronx.”

For weeks, Daughtry has been outside all over the city in response to 311 complaints that are routed to him and to comments posted on his own social media, he said.

“It’s fun because it’s gratifying that when people come home from work and they’re looking for a spot, they’re not going to see these vehicles, they’re not here anymore,” Daughtry told The Post.

The city’s 311 line has also been fielding complaints about a trash-strewn lot around 202nd Street and Webster, Daughtry said standing near the site.

The mayor’s office of community affairs planned to send a letter to the property owner warning them they have five days to clean it up. If not, the city will do it, and charge them, Daughtry said.

“It’s a bad look for the residents here in the Bronx, and we’re not going to tolerate that,” Daughtry said. “We’re going to restore the quality of life back to this neighborhood one block at a time.”