The super hoarder who turned her Queens street into Filth Avenue could have been living on Easy Street — with the $10,000 cash and $30,000 in jewelry she had hidden in her immense piles of trash, a neighbor claims.
Carmine Bhimull claims she stowed the money and baubles among the immense piles of clothes, milk crates, recycling and a broken fish tank — and now she’s worried her treasures will end up in the dumpster.
“She called me last night, she is just concerned about her ꦡvaluables,” said longtime friend Sheldon Williams, who went to Bhimull’s South Jamaica home to help hired cleaners in ridding the place of tons of g⛄arbage.
Williams said Bhimull — who’s been hospitalized since Wednesday night — once showed him the wad of dough and the jewelry.
The haul is now believed to be inside Bhimull’s bedroom, which is still inaccessible, even on the third day of decluttering efforts, as workers were forced to fiꦅrst tackle the two-story mounds of garbage outside of the 118th Avenue residence.
While Williams hasn’t been able to locate the possible mini-fortune, he did still find some loo▨t outside, scat🅠tered around the yard.
“From the gate to [the] door, we found loose change,” Williams♒ told The Post. “One dollar bill, old two dollar bills and scraps of gold and silver.”
“They were stacked in bags and cinder blocks. We are putting it aside for her.”
Williams said he’s known Bhimull for 15 years — ever since she owned and operated a since-shuttered laundromat with her ex-boyfriend Mahindra Ramlal.
But over the years, Williams recalled, Bhimull’s health declined and in addition t𒆙o hoarding, she collected bottles and🐈 cans as a means for income.
“She lost the laundromat, she decided to go into selling bottles, and that’s what she has been doing,” said Williams. 💎“She is not on🙈 public assistance. This is what she does.”
Her behavior pushed away her loved ones, including Ramlal, who owns the home and has racked up $343,000 in unpaid fines since 2015 because of the squalid conditions.
“Her ex bought the house, but he couldn’t deal with it and he moved out. In m😼y eyes, she is a good person, and she still is. She is just sick.”
On Saturday afternoon, Bhimull’s sister from her nat💧ive Trinidad called Williams while he was with a Post reporter.
𒊎“She just wants to come out of the hospital,” herℱ sister told Williams.
Meanwhile, a cleaning crew from Diamond Power Enterprises clad in white hazmat-like suits hauled away an estimated 40 tons of debris — including bags of bottles and cans — by early Saturday afternoon.
Workers from the ASPCA showe♊d up and took one cat from the yard. They also found what could be the remains of a dog, one of the workers told The Post.
The city Buildings Department dropped by to slap Ramlal with two more summonses — one for the front-yard garbage and another for a broken chain-link fence.
Ramlal, who kickstarted🎃 the cleaning effort on Thursday, said that despite ♐his efforts, the tickets continue to pile up.
“The fire ღdepartment came and saw me cleaning up and give me a summons,” he said. “I had a U-Haul truck cleaning up when I came, and they gave me the summons.”
“I work, and I am tired, but I try to help. I can only do so much. [Bhimull] is෴ not able to comprehend what’s going on, and she gets up𝄹set.”
“They come with violations🅘 after violations, and no one could see that she w꧂as sick.”