Tourists can live like the city's starving artists — for just $80 a night!
A Crown Heights woodworker is marketing the back of his warehouse as an offbeat trailer park where tourists slum it in three campers surrounded by a chain-link fence.
Vacationers can choose from a 1954 Shasta trailer with a twin bed, a 1968 four-bed Shasta or a four-person Avion trailer. There are also three rooms for rent in the warehouse.
The antique trailers lock only from the inside and are stocked with cans of tuna and brandy bottles filled with water.
Each additional guest costs an extra $25.
Kellam Clark, who has advertised the campers on the Web site Airbnb.com since May, said he created the kooky caravans to stay in business in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
"After a few months, it became clear this is an experience people really enjoy," Clark told The Post. "They enjoy being close to and being a part of what New York is in their mind."
It's "the real Brooklyn experience," one reviewer on the website wrote. "Even if the area and the first glance may give you a wrong impression, it is a great place to stay."
Another traveler called it the worst night of her life.
"We flew in terror after the first night," a Berlin tourist wrote. "In the handout we received at the beginning we were asked not to open the door for the police — no matter what they say and how they would try to get in."
Guests enter through a metal door in the yard after calling a number listed on a mail slot. The trailers are parked amid a fire pit and bevy of sculptures and other oddities.
Stocked with clean sheets, blankets, towels and dishes, the trailers have a refrigerator and stove — though neither work. There's just one bathroom for all guests and it's inside the warehouse.
A shower and toilet are separated by a wall — with a peephole behind a mirror allowing public view.
"I would also suggest taking a towel into the shower area to cover the fisheye lens . . . unless having someone watching you take a shower is your thing," one reviewer said.
The Dean Street campground is one of thousands of city residences on Airbnb.com. In May, an administrative law judge ruled site users are violating a state law prohibiting landlords from renting out apartments for fewer than 30 days. But tenants are likely to face the city's wrath only if neighbors file complaints against them.
That's why the trailer park and warehouse — not a legal residence under current zoning — come with hard rules.
If asked, hipster hillbillies must say they are working on a project, the website instructs.
Visitors must also adhere to the junkyard Jellystone's freewheeling ways: Clark and his fellow artists, for instance, "reserve the right to be nude when it is not inappropriate," according to the listing.
"It is not okay to watch normal TV programming in any of the common spaces," Clark wrote on Airbnb. "Advertisements are like acid on the brain and are banished from this space."
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