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The fur’s flying over Donald Trump’s childhood home.
The six-bedroom house in Queens where the former president lived until age 4 was left to rot by an absentee investor and is overrun by feral cats — infuriating neighbors who say the place is a massive eyesore, according to residents and reports.
The modest brick house in Jamaica Estates has become a playground for 20 to 30 felines and has been was plastered with “vacate” and “water shut off” notices when The Post visited Friday.
“I want it to be occupied,” neighbor Deborah Ayala-Braun fumed to Curbed, which was first to report the local cat-astrophe. “I want it to have its own history going forward.”
The Tudor-style abode, owned by a business called “Trump Birth House LLC,” was covered in cobwebs and had an overgrown yard where several scraggly kitties were spotted skulking around Friday.
The home, which most recently sold for $2.5 million, had a smashed front door knob, was littered with leaves and smelled of cat urine.
“DO NOT TAKE KITTENS FROM THIS PROPERTY,” declared a sign at the house, located at 85-15 Wareham Place.
Neighbors are not feline fine about the dilapidated pad, saying it has lured would-be robbers and pranksters in recent months.
A busted pipe at the home flooded Ayala-Braun’s basement and the house has caused electricity trouble on the block, she told Curbed.
The cats there are being taken care of by volunteers.
Neighbors now want to pool their money to buy the house then sell it to someone who will properly care for it, she said.
Over the years, the house has also drawn crowds of Trump-loving tourists, neighbors said.
“Eight years ago during the election when Trump won, people were flooding the block and causing so much traffic to take a picture with the house,” said one resident, who declined to give his name.
The house was first snapped up for $1.4 million by a real estate flipper in 2016 before briefly becoming an AirBnb rental.
Michael X. Tang, a lawyer listed as representing Trump Birth House LLC, told The Post through a rep Friday he’s no longer representing the owner.
The current owner of the home is up to date on taxes and paid a $2,200 Department of Buildings fine, so the house can’t be seized, according to Curbed. They could not immediately be reached for comment.
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