{"id":233700,"date":"2026-05-16T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233700\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:50:10","slug":"twerking-tailed-homeless-man-named-tiger-turns-nyc-sidewalk-into-his-own-luxe-lair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233700\/","title":{"rendered":"Twerking, tailed homeless man named Tiger turns NYC sidewalk into his own luxe lair"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pot-smoking, champagne-swigging, twerking homeless man<\/a> with a tail has commandeered a Greenwich Village sidewalk and turned it into a fully furnished, one-bedroom apartment.<\/p>\n

The man, who goes by \u201cTiger\u201d and sports a striped orange tail secured to his rump, has transformed a stretch of Sullivan Street near Bleecker into his own personal lair \u2014 complete with a bed, couch, end table, chair, book shelves and a vase of fresh flowers. <\/p>\n

Potted onions, a decorative wooden skull, and a lectern holding a dictionary finish the homey decor of the outdoor abode nestled against the back service entrance of a shuttered restaurant.<\/p>\n

Tiger has turned Sullivan Street into his own personal lair wherehe boozes up, does drugs, and sleeps in an al fresco apartment. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of this is found or foraged . . . This is Jesus Christ\u2019s teaching applied to housing,\u201d explained Tiger, who claimed to be from Boston and occasionally lives with a girlfriend, who gave her named as Nina.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdherence to the system of money is a spiritual implant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Neighbors said Tiger moved in about three months ago, securing a plum spot on a block where a one-bedroom apartment goes for $21,900 per month, according to Apartments.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two days this week The Post witnessed the chaos Tiger brings to the block, testing the limits of neighbors who voted overwhelmingly for socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On multiple occasions he broke out into a fit of twerking on the crowded sidewalks of Bleecker Street as pedestrians skirted past his gyrating tail.<\/p>\n

In between puffing on a glass pipe and swigging Old English malt liquor<\/a>, Tiger roared about whatever crossed his mind, which on Wednesday was the America-hating leftists.<\/p>\n

Tiger and his girlfriend Nina accumulated their apartment from discarded furniture around the Washington Square Park area over the course of three months. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

Tiger smoking from a glass pipe at his lair on Tuesday which he paired with a bottle of champagne. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cHow dare these heretics say anything against George Washington! He\u2019s the man. Are you kidding me?!\u201d<\/p>\n

Neighbors have had enough. Since February, the city\u2019s 311 hotline has received 24 complaints about a homeless encampment<\/a> at the Sullivan Street location.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago cops were called after Tiger barged into Landmark Real Estate on Sullivan Street and roared at employees. But cops left his lair alone.<\/p>\n

Tiger on the prowl on Bleeker Street where he casually shows off his tail during a fit of sidewalk twerking. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

His antics have gained him notoriety in the tony neighborhood, with two NYU film students following him around with a camera for hours documenting his every utterance on Tuesday and Wednesday. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cYou gotta get these motherf\u2014-rs out of here,\u201d said Paolo Tavares, 50, who lives nearby and works at Italian restaurant Arturo\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what they do? They do drugs, they drink, they probably have sex right there on those couches for everybody to see,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s $20 million sitting across the street,\u201d he continued in reference to the block\u2019s luxury townhouses. \u201cIf I live there, I want to look out my window and see those guys?\u201d<\/p>\n

The malt liquor drinking mystic says he will not be upset if city officials clear out the plush sidewalk crash pad. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

Rose DeMarco, 80, has lived her whole life on Sullivan Street and said that the local enforcers would never have allowed an ecampment to stand for three months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis used to be a mob block. The mobsters would be here \u2014 you never had a problem on this block,\u201d she said. \u201cThis would not have happened if the mob was still here.\u201d<\/p>\n

One block resident, Gene, was impressed by Tiger\u2019s ingenuity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I first saw it I thought, \u2018This is a really nice set-up for homeless people,\u2019\u201d the 70-year-old said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say charming but it\u2019s the best homeless set-up I\u2019ve ever seen on the block.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pot-smoking, champagne-swigging, twerking homeless man with a tail has commandeered a Greenwich Village sidewalk and turned it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2519,32941,2000,57,9,56,63,65,64,58,15081],"class_list":["post-233700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-greenwich-village","tag-homeless-encampments","tag-homelessness","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news","tag-washington-square-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}