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What a bunch of pricks!<\/p>\n

An unhinged gang of vagrants\u2014including a sicko in a grotesque penis mask and a maniac setting benches ablaze\u2014is relentlessly terrorizing young girls at a multi-million-dollar soccer field in the trendy Meatpacking District.<\/p>\n

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The Post witnessed the chaotic scenes this week, where the man wearing a revolting mask with a dangling penis for a nose glowered less than 20 feet from the wary kids, stripped and screamed in an unprovoked outburst at 9 a.m. on a Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone wants to party, but no one wants to pay for party!\u201d the man bellowed.<\/p>\n

He took off his mask to reveal something passersby said was even more frightening \u2014 his face, covered with 30 piercings, including a ring between his eyes and a menacing cluster of tiny metal studs circling his mouth, eyebrows and eyes.<\/p>\n

Atop his head was the second part of the mask \u2014 a balaclava-type contraption featuring a giant middle finger with the words \u201csex,\u201d \u201cf\u2013k you\u201d and \u201cMr. Anger\u201d scrawled on it.<\/p>\n

The rowdy crew of vagrants \u2014 who get drunk at the nearby Mobil gas station on 8th Avenue before trudging over to Hudson River Park according to neighbors across the street \u2014 have become a regular presence around the Gansevoort Peninsula field, which sits across the West Side Highway from the Whitney Museum, where they harass girls as young as five and threaten parks workers.<\/p>\n

Parents are mortified.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s extremely concerning,\u201d said Jason Fern\u00e1ndez, whose daughter was practicing on the field with Gotham Girls Football Club. \u201cNothing is being done,\u201d he lambasted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to the kids, something has to happen,\u201d he continued. \u201cToday this guy in the mask started waving at the girls. I came back because he gave me a weird feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese men need help, but obviously they\u2019re not getting it and because of that everyone else has to suffer,\u201d he vented. \u201cMamdani is terrible, absolutely terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

About a week ago, at least two unknown members of the mob, whose numbers can swell to a dozen, stripped down and had grunting sex on a nearby bench, entirely oblivious to their surroundings, according to an eyewitness.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe girl was on the top of the guy. It was unbelievable, like 4 o\u2019clock in the afternoon,\u201d said eyewitness dog walker Geronimo Silva. \u201cThis city is becoming worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Silva told The Post he was also harassed by the penis-masked menace \u2014 who at one point Wednesday took off his tank top in front of the kids to reveal a \u201cthug life\u201d tattoo plastered across his stomach and more ink on his back that included pistols and skulls.<\/p>\n

His buddy, meanwhile, was conked out on a bench right in front of the children, and another man was zonked out right in the goal post. <\/p>\n

A fourth man, sporting a \u201cScarface\u201d tee-shirt, asked for money as he flipped the middle finger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI take Cash App, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, all the electronic payments,\u201d he shamelessly declared.<\/p>\n

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Another dangerous lunatic, some parents nicknamed \u201cFire Bug,\u201d recently set\u00a0fires to the benches while the kids practiced, one parent claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the benches, I think it\u2019s that one, you could see it burnt,\u201d said Fern\u00e1ndez, pointing to the burn marks on the bottom of the bench.<\/p>\n

Since the city opened the $73 million Gansevoort Peninsula in 2023 \u2014 a 5.5-acre green oasis with a sports field, beach and boardwalk \u2014 homeless people wasted little time turning the park in the swanky neighborhood \u2014 where celebs like Justin and Hailey Bieber, Ben Stiller and Jennifer Lawrence live and where a penthouse recently sold for $18 million \u2014 into their own personal crash pad and washrooms.<\/p>\n

Encampments were twice torn down last summer, but this year the NYPD told The Post it didn\u2019t respond to incidents there, and there were no 311 complaints about them. But petrified parents and parkgoers said the crew has become even more brazen.<\/p>\n

\u201cGansevoort is the worst one because you get crazy homeless people around the field,\u201d said soccer coach Saad Afif, who owns Manhattan Football Training and regularly leads practices there.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere it\u2019s out in the open and you can kind of just walk up\u2026a few times I had to step in and tell people to either go away or tell security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vagrants also regularly wash up naked in the park bathrooms even as the kids are using them, parents told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things the kids see that they shouldn\u2019t be seeing,\u201d said the fed up Parks worker, who said he and his colleagues are forced to deal with the drifters, despite the city\u2019s Department of Homeless Services tasked with helping and NYPD with public drinking and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n

DHS told The Post the park was \u201cnot a known hotspot\u201d to the department, but that it would \u201cmonitor this location\u00a0and\u00a0offer shelter and services to any vulnerable individuals\u201d it encounters.<\/p>\n

The behavior also frightens nearby food vendors, who said they have been targeted as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey get aggressive and start threatening and intimidating,\u201d said a 26-year-old food kiosk worker. \u201cThey say stuff like \u2018I got something in my bag\u2019 or \u2018I\u2019m gonna f\u2013k you up. It happens about twice a week almost always the same people. They want free food and unfortunately, it\u2019s a business we can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, park workers were again called to boot the vagrants.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYa buggin the f\u2013k out!\u201d the penis-masked man shrieked as he was escorted away from the field.<\/p>\n

Parents are resigned to seeing him and his motley crew again.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe parks people come around every now and then, but the homeless just leave and come back 10 minutes later,\u201d said Lee, whose daughter plays for Gotham Girls Football Club.<\/p>\n

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