Hey, it’s cheaper than getting an apartment.

Bums have been turning the city’s free curbside Wi-Fi kiosks into their own personal living rooms, setting up chairs, watching movies — and guzzling liquor until they vomit.

One man set up a mini camp — complete with a couch, newspaper-bin footrest and umbrella ceiling — next to one of the high-tech huts in Murray Hill, gripped Christine Smith, 24, who lives near the Third Avenue location.

The plugged-in vagrant lived there for three weeks, she told The Post.

“It was essentially his living room. He had a stereo he would plug in and would be playing all the time, and he would be charging all of his devices,’’ Smith said.

“He was blocking the sidewalk, he had furniture out there and everything. It was a nuisance.”

The kiosks are the brainchild of the de Blasio administration and aimed at bridging the “digital divide” by bringing Internet access to everyone.

The Wi-Fi hot spots allow free unlimited online access to the public, as well as USB charging ports and gratis domestic phone calls.

The city plans to install nearly 8,000 of the kiosks across the five boroughs in the next seven years. About 400 are currently up and running, mostly on Third and Eighth avenues in Manhattan.

Tiffany Ho, who owns a hair salon outside a Third Avenue kiosk, said people often pull up “chairs’’ to the spot and sit there with their headphones plugged in all day.

“It’s not a great idea, they should have a limit. It’s in the middle of the block, and the chairs are blocking the road,’’ she said.

Last week, Smith saw a sleazy couple using the kiosk near her home for a gross “movie-date night.’’ They got hot and heavy with each other as they sat in lawn chairs in front of the kiosk for at least seven hours while watching movie clips and drinking Four Lokos.

“They got really drunk and were throwing up outside of my window,’’ she said. “[The woman] was keeled over and the guy she was with was laughing at her and yelling and saying it was so funny that she got so drunk.”

As The Post reported, the vendor, LinkNYC, already had to add a porn filter at the kiosks because so many people were watching skin flicks at them.

Ruth Fasoldt, the community-affairs manager for LinkNYC, said the program is still in the “early phase of deployment.”

“We have heard the community’s feedback and are actively working with those communities and the city to test potential adjustments to LinkNYC in response to their concerns to prevent any of the Links from being monopolized by any individual or groups of users,’’ she said.



Additional reporting by Elizabeth Rosner