Nassau County gifted a sleazy abandoned motel overrun by drugs and prostitution to a nonprofit that will spend $20 million to convert the site into housing for struggling veterans , officials said Monday.

County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R) signed over the deed to the former Long Beach Motor Inn property in Island Park to the Tunnel to Towers Foundation in a deal that will build 58 affordable units for “transitional” homeless veterans who meet income requirements.

The county fought to close the property and took it over in 2014.

“The county will deed over to Tunnels to Towers — a hotel that was dilapidated, drug infested, a place of prostitution, an eye sore in the community, and a danger to the community — so they could build [58] units for our veterans so they could have a home,”

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