#NYC real estate agent fired after run-ins with homeless neighbors

A Hell’s Kitchen real estate broker is looking for another job after a display of his distaste for the homeless people and drug addicts on his block got him fired.

Scott Sobol, 43, got canned by Compass Realty for rolling empty beer bottles toward the Washington Jefferson Hotel, where he says an unsavory crowd has been hanging out and annoying him.

“I would just like to take a simple walk with my dog to the Dunkin’ Donuts, but now every day that walk requires stepping over multiple beer bottles, a used syringe, and a dirty condom,” he told The Post.

Sobol’s defiant bottle rolling was caught by a hotel security camera. The video found its way to the chairman of the Hell’s Kitchen 49-54 Block Alliance, Steve Belida, who emailed the clip to his members.

The footage ended up on Nextdoor, a neighborhood social media site.

The powers at Compass watched it, too.

“The way in which our agents represent their communities is of utmost importance to us. Scott no longer works as an agent at Compass,” a company spokesman told The Post.

Sobol had spent more than six years with Compass, where his website bio — now taken down — lauded him as one of the company’s best producers and the “very first agent recruited from Douglas Elliman to join Compass back in 2014.”

In his June 11 email, Belida wrote: “We were given a video of a person coming out from behind a dumpster and throwing what appears to be bottles at a homeless resident…. We will not let hate rule our community.”

That description appears to overstate Sobol’s offense.

On the social media site, Sobol revealed he was the bottle vigilante — and explained he pitched the trash out of frustration with the hotel, which has taken in a number of homeless people during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“On my dog walk the other day,…, as I passed the WJ there was a pile of 11 beer bottles and in my frustration with the hotel & shelter management being complicit in the destruction of our community, I lost my cool and took three of the bottles and ROLLED THEM ON THE FLOOR back toward the hotel,” Sobol wrote.

“I am not throwing them and there is no homeless person outside. The gentleman you see [in the foreground] on the video is the manager you see at the hotel,” Sobol said.

On Facebook, Sobol has posted several videos where he can be heard complaining about trash, drugs and homeless people. He often tagged City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and his chief of staff, Erik Bottcher, to demand action.

Sometimes, Sobol took a hands-on approach with his unwelcome neighbors.

“This is a guy…shooting up drugs right here,” Sobol said in March as he videotaped a man in a phone booth. “He’s doing his drugs right here on our block.”

“I saw the needle in his arm,” Sobol wrote as text on the video, also pointing out the city’s uptick in crime.

In the caption on another video he took outside the shelter, Sobol wrote: “The guy on the right is s–tfaced drunk and the woman with the walker is leaving the shelter to go do drugs down the block.”

Belida, who has led the block association for 12 years, told The Post that Sobol had only recently taken an interest in neighborhood issues and demanded to be made co-chair after attending a single meeting.

Marisa Redanty, a Hell’s Kitchen Democratic district leader, accused Sobol of baiting the homeless people.

“He would make gestures…and then when they would react, he would film it. Not like these ladies are completely stable anyway so it’s like poking a tiger,” she said.

“It doesn’t seem like he cares about the homeless. He just doesn’t want them in his backyard.”