Troubled kids ran away from a crammed, city-operated housing facility in Manhattan more than 1,500 times in just over a year, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Monday, quoting recently released data.
About 1,580 missing-person's reports were filed for the on-the-lam children, who ranged in age from 12 to 18 and snuck out of the Administration for Children Services facility on 492 1st Ave. in Kips Bay between January 2012 and February 2013.
"The conditions at these facilities are often cramped, with up to 15 kids living in the same room at any given time," a police source said.
The facility, known as The Nicholas Scoppetta Children's Center, has 55 beds and is essentially a revolving door for troubled children, usually housing them for about a month before they're either shipped back home or somewhere more permanent. The site handles about 10,000 kids a year, city officials said.
The kids are allowed to come and go for brief periods during their stay unless they have mental and physical problems — but if they remain AWOL, the cops are sent after them, sources said.
"They run away, and it's our job to bring them back," the source said.
The runaway teens are returned to the facility in handcuffs because arrest warrants are put out for them through the Family Court once a missing-persons report is filed.
"These kids aren't criminals for leaving the facility. But the warrants issued by family court help to insure that the teen will be returned to ACS," the source said. "Otherwise, there is no telling where they could end up.
"Prostitution, human trafficking, these kids are easy prey on the streets of New York, and it's our job to keep them off the street to prevent these outcomes."
A 2010 report by The Post revealed severe security issues at five ACS-run facilities, including the Scoppetta center.
In August 2010, a 45-year-old man who had been arrested multiple times walked through an open freight entrance at Scoppetta and meandered about around before getting nabbed after tripping an emergency-exit alarm.
Since February 2013, several more teens have fled the facility, a source said.
One 13-year-old girl left May 21 but wasn't officially reported missing until May 29, according to her missing-persons report.
That same week, two other juveniles went missing from the facility: a 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl who suffers from bipolar disorder, according to police.
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