#Vagrants rebuild after NYC breaks up ‘zombie movie’ homeless encampment

City workers broke up a large homeless encampment under the FDR Drive in Lower Manhattan following a Post exposé — but several rousted residents were already working to rebuild it Tuesday afternoon.

Sanitation workers cleaned up piles of trash and extinguished the remnants of a cooking fire Monday evening, leading NYPD cops to order the vagrants to disperse.

The move came several hours after The Post reported on the sprawling shantytown, which a resident of the nearby Smith Houses described as “like a scene out of a zombie movie” after dark.

Outreach workers offered in vain to place occupants of the encampment near Catherine Slip in homeless shelters.

“Where you want me to go, a shelter? To get stabbed up?” yelled a man who gave his name as Neil.

“I’m not going to no shelter! … I’m not going nowhere! Nowhere!”

Neil’s girlfriend, Kristen, 30, said they’d been living at the encampment for about three weeks.

“I just met him when he got out of jail,” she said.

“It’s hard. There’s no work. He’s a carpenter. He builds stuff.”

Kristen said they wanted to register as domestic partners “to get us into a couples shelter,” but hadn’t been able to do so “because of COVID.”

“As long as we keep this clean, what’s the harm? It’s like outdoor living,” she said. “What are they going to do? Give us a ticket? Put us in jail for being homeless?”

On Tuesday, the couple and several other homeless people were re-establishing the shantytown at the exact same spot.

“We just waited across the street for an hour and a half, then came back,” Kristen said.

“Where do they expect us to go?”

Meanwhile, several smaller encampments under the highway further south remained intact and undisturbed.

They include one set up near Dover Street between a pair of support pillars and enclosed by sections of chain-link fence and a portable metal barricade.

“We call that one that one the gated homeless community,” a city parks worker said.

“I called 311 a few times but they take so long to show up and nothing happens, so, whatever.”

The Department of Homeless Services didn’t immediately return a request for comment.