‘Squeegee Man’ busted for 226th time

9/6/2014

Gregg Washington is taken away in cuffs by two police officers.

The “Squeegee Man” of Midtown was busted again — his 226th arrest — for illegally washing car windows Friday evening, a law-enforcement source told The Post.

Gregg Washington, 40, was caught washing motorists’ windshields at the corner of West 42nd Street and 9th Avenue around 4:30 p.m., a source said.

“It appears as if he moved towards the West Side because of the heat he was getting [on the East Side],” another police source said.

Washington was booked at the Midtown South Precinct, just blocks away from where he was arrested.

“I’m being harassed!” he said as he was walked from the station house. It was his 179th arrest for illegally washing car windows.

The suspect was featured on the front page of The Post three weeks ago after cops arrested for the 178th time Aug. 10 for illegal window-washing.

He spent five nights in jail after cops found him washing windshields by East 37th Street and Lexington Avenue.

Friday’s arrest marks Washington’s 226th bust overall, including for marijuana possession and other non-violent crimes, sources said.

Washington and others have been targeted by cops amid Mayor de Blasio’s and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton”s quality-of-life ” crackdown.

Aggressive costumed characters in Times Square also have been in the NYPD’s crosshairs.

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