Kevin McCrary
HAVE YOU HOARD? The sky’s the limit as Kevin McCrary (inset) rearranges the junk on his van yesterday. (
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Someone needs to call The Container Store.
A trust-fund hoarder’s tony Upper East Side apartment is so jammed with junk that he’s had to branch out to a van parked outside his East 64th Street building — and that too is packed to the brim.
Kevin McCrary’s green Ford E250 has stacks of VCRs, microphones, cables and other items inside — touching the ceiling and blocking the windows.
He stacks more things on the roof, covering it with a gray tarp and topping everything off with a rainbow of suitcases.
Trash bags and more suitcases are stuffed underneath the van.
From a bench outside the building, McCrary keeps careful watch over his stuff, occasionally rearranging the suitcases to pack them even more tightly together.
McCrary, who has no job, considers himself a “collector of some sort,” not a hoarder. He pays for his $1,400-a-month rent from the estate of his parents, talk-show pioneers Tex McCrary, a legendary political strategist and journalist, and model and actress Jinx Falkenburg.
Both have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Despite all his nesting, McCrary, 64, says what he doesn’t have at the moment is companionship.
“I don’t have a girlfriend now,” he said. “No room.”
His antics have his neighbors in an uproar.
“I don’t know what’s in there,” said hairstylist Joseph Quijano, 44, who refuses to walk past McCrary’s van with his beagle. “I avoid it like the plague,” he said.
McCrary says he moves his van for alternate-side parking, but neighbors say he just opens the hood and pretends it’s broken down.
In October, he appeared on an episode of A&E’s “Hoarders,” and a team of cleaners packed up eight truckloads of belongings from the apartment he’s lived in for 20 years.
The building’s owners have given up trying to evict him, after three failed attempts.
Describing McCrary as “extremely intelligent,” the building’s manager, Jeffrey Webber, said, “He has packed the apartment brilliantly.
“He should be working for a moving company.”