The “squeegee man” featured on the cover of the New York Post last week has quit his window “washing” hustle after he was tossed in jail, he said Tuesday.
“It wasn’t a cop car, but it belonged to a captain from the 17th Precinct. He jumped out and locked me up,” said Gregg Washington, 40, after his arraignment Thursday night.
Gregg Washington, 40, of Philadelphia claimed he’d given up the “gig” — which symbolizes the “bad old days” of New York — after cops arrested him Saturday, he told Animal New York.
“I can’t [do it anymore]. I just went to jail,” Washington said while puffing on a cigar at 42nd Street and Ninth Avenue, according to the site.
He made roughly $40 a day washing windows and had no clue what he’d do for cash in the future, he said.
Washington has been arrested 178 times for washing motorists’ windshields — and 225 times in total, police sources said.
At his hearing, he pleaded guilty to aggressive panhandling and was sentenced to time served and released.
He’d been sentenced to five days for criminal nuisance and drinking in public and just got out of Rikers, he said.