[NYPOST] The vagrant whose alleged threats got a homeless outreach nonprofit to flee the transit hub in fear last weekend was holding court ‐ and spewing hate at cops ‐ there Thursday.Eugene Watts was spotted sipping a brown-bag beer in the station one day after The Post reported that embattled nonprofit Bowery Residents Committee up and abandoned its satellite office there because he allegedly threatened to shoot workers.Watts, who claims to be a former boxer, remained defiant Thursday.
"Mr. Eugene Watts, you have five minutes to leave," one of two passing Amtrak cops on patrol at the busy transit hub was heard telling Watts on Thursday. "There is a warrant out for your arrest."
Watts fired back: "Kiss my black ass. I’d rather go to jail. I can get an apartment."
Put him in the Mayor's mansion
The cops simply walked on.
The tasteless tableau was one scene in a chaotic day at the terminal.
On Wednesday, The Post revealed that taxpayer-funded BRC ‐ which was slammed by the state comptroller last year for only dedicating 26 percent of its time to actual outreach ‐ had been "indefinitely" closed because Watts allegedly threatened on Saturday to "come back with a gun and shoot you."
Watts, who denied the gun threat, was among the more than two dozen homeless people back at the station Thursday ‐ many of whom had to be dealt with by police because BRC’s offices were closed and its workers scarce.
BRC is under contract with Amtrak to run the outreach office to help the dozens of homeless people who frequent Penn Station on a regular basis.
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