Hipsters forced off floating crash pad

Time for this party boat to ship out.

A group of hipsters living on a ferry converted to a squatter-style crash pad — and floating off Brooklyn — has been booted by FDNY officials.

Ten artists who had set up a Jacuzzi on the boat's massive deck were ordered to pack up their paintings aboard the craft in Maspeth Creek in Williamsburg on Friday, sources said. Authorities cited them for living on an abandoned vessel.

The drifters had rigged electricity and a makeshift plumbing system in the four-floor, 145-foot-long boat, which sometimes hosted all-night parties in the industrial area, sources familiar with the situation said.

The denizens built bedrooms and paid to dock the boat at 190 Morgan Ave., sources said.

Built in 1978, the 650-passenger ferry, dubbed the Schamonchi, had hauled tourists from New Bedford, Mass., to Martha's Vineyard on $17 round trips for years.

Ferry operator Charlie Donadio of Rhode Island Fast Ferry said he considered buying the boat 10 years ago — but it was snatched up by a man from Massachusetts, who converted it into a "living space."

By 2007, five residents had begun docking the vessel in New York City waterways, where they fashioned a swing on the tennis-court-sized deck and sometimes threw bonfire parties.

The ferry — which is the size of a yacht at 6,000 square feet — was owned in 2008 by a man who rented out "rooms" in the vessel, according to a New York Times article.

Back then, its artsy residents used a small motorboat for 10-minute trips to the city and then reboarded their home by hopping over polluted water onto the boat's deck.

But the owner may have abandoned the ferry during Hurricane Sandy last year — creating a squatter's paradise, Donadio said.

Owners of nearby properties said boat residents had never caused any trouble.

"I knew a few of them . . . I certainly never had any problems with them," Roger Benton, owner of 200 Morgan Ave., told The Post.

The property at 190 Morgan, where the boat is docked, is listed as belonging to the firm Mega Fortune.

The firm's owner said she hadn't given the boat's residents permission to dock there.

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