A pot-smoking, champagne-swigging, twerking homeless man with a tail has commandeered a Greenwich Village sidewalk and turned it into a fully furnished, one-bedroom apartment.
The man, who goes by “Tiger” and sports a striped orange tail secured to his rump, has transformed a stretch of Sullivan Street near Bleecker into his own personal lair — complete with a bed, couch, end table, chair, book shelves and a vase of fresh flowers.
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.
“All of this is found or foraged . . . This is Jesus Christ’s teaching applied to housing,” explained Tiger, who claimed to be from Boston and occasionally lives with a girlfriend, who gave her named as Nina.
“Adherence to the system of money is a spiritual implant,” he said.
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.
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.
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.
In between puffing on a glass pipe and swigging Old English malt liquor, Tiger roared about whatever crossed his mind, which on Wednesday was the America-hating leftists.
“How dare these heretics say anything against George Washington! He’s the man. Are you kidding me?!”
Neighbors have had enough. Since February, the city’s 311 hotline has received 24 complaints about a homeless encampment at the Sullivan Street location.
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.
“You gotta get these motherf—-rs out of here,” said Paolo Tavares, 50, who lives nearby and works at Italian restaurant Arturo’s.
“You know what they do? They do drugs, they drink, they probably have sex right there on those couches for everybody to see,” he said.
“That’s $20 million sitting across the street,” he continued in reference to the block’s luxury townhouses. “If I live there, I want to look out my window and see those guys?”
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.
“This used to be a mob block. The mobsters would be here — you never had a problem on this block,” she said. “This would not have happened if the mob was still here.”
One block resident, Gene, was impressed by Tiger’s ingenuity.
“When I first saw it I thought, ‘This is a really nice set-up for homeless people,’” the 70-year-old said. “I wouldn’t say charming but it’s the best homeless set-up I’ve ever seen on the block.”
