The Big Apple is about to become Tent City, and never mind the icy temps that apparently left 10 people dead outdoors.

Or perhaps we’ll start calling it Lepto Town — once leptospirosis, the bacterial disease rampant in homeless encampments, takes hold.

That’s because New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has barred the NYPD from closing down the ramshackle camps that have been springing up in neighborhoods across the five boroughs ever since he previewed his policy in December.

The consequences are dire — for the vagrants themselves, and for the city’s viability.

Over the last few days, 10 New Yorkers were found dead outside in the cold, city officials said Tuesday.

Most were discovered in a park or an alley, and likely were sleeping rough — indeed, several were known to the city’s shelter system, the mayor conceded.

No matter how many neighborhood residents call 311 to report a new encampment, the NYPD is now powerless to deal with them — and even New York’s Strongest are barred from cleaning them up.

The Sanitation Department has orders to remove garbage and human waste, but must leave mattresses, clothing, makeshift cardboard huts and other items intact.

In other words, sanitation workers must serve as maids, while doing nothing about the dangerous........

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