DISPATCHES FROM THE CERULEAN BLUE STATES: Anna Wintour’s Greenwich Village block overrun by homeless encampments, notorious vagrant named Tiger.
This block is in vogue with bums!
Anna Wintour’s posh Greenwich Village block has become a haven for the homeless who turned it into their own outdoor flophouse, frustrated residents and workers told The Post.
At least five other vagrants have moved onto Sullivan Street between East Houston and Bleecker streets since The Post revealed its dodgiest denizen: a pot-puffing, booze-swigging, twerking vagrant named “Tiger,” for the striped orange tail secured to his rump.
The motley crew has assembled a hodgepodge of chairs, storage containers, books, decorative planters, side tables and bedding in front of shuttered businesses in and around the same stretch where the legendary Vogue editor lives in her $11.5 million townhome, part of a preserved stretch of buildings in the MacDougal-Sullivan Historic District.
Besides boozing at all hours, the vagrants shoot up drugs, poop in the street, lie around naked, and harass passersby, neighbors said.
But will Vogue critique their fashion choices? Vogue fashionistas to swarm California city once dubbed ‘the land that style forgot.’
The capital of corporate vests and “foot condoms” has landed one of the world’s top high-fashion events — as Vogue revealed San Francisco as the site of its Vogue World event next year.
“Vogue believes in celebrating cities, and San Francisco is a city like none other,” said Anna Wintour, Condé Nast’s chief content officer and the global editorial director of Vogue,” in a statement.
“It’s a place of diverse communities living side by side, a place that loves the arts, loves creativity, and isn’t afraid of change.”
Alas, like New York, many of those changes haven’t been for the better. As Glenn wrote last week, “Nothing is more radicalizing than pictures of the old America:”