Video circulating online of an Oct. 17 altercation outside the Red Lion at 151 Bleecker Street shows a man knocked unconscious and hitting a scaffolding pole, according to the New York Post. The Post identified the other man in the fight as Noel-Teru Gibson, 44, who goes by Tiger, and reported that Gibson punched the man after he shoved him. The Post said the NYPD had no record of an arrest connected to the incident.
The confrontation happened near a furnished sidewalk encampment on Sullivan Street where Tiger had been staying. Yahoo News reported that New York City’s 311 hotline had logged 24 complaints about the encampment since February. The video’s location puts the fight near the site; it does not establish that the encampment caused or was connected to the altercation.
Encampment policy and the limits of citywide figures
The city changed how it handles encampment complaints on Sept. 22, routing 311 reports to the Department of Homeless Services rather than the NYPD. City Limits reported that the revised protocol calls for outreach teams to engage with people at a site for seven days before a sweep, with other agencies able to assist on the seventh day under certain conditions. DHS said it received about 1,500 reports citywide during the policy’s first two weeks and responded to callers in an average of four and a half hours.
Broader homelessness figures describe citywide conditions, not this block. The NYC Department of Social Services estimated that 4,991 people were unsheltered across the city on the night of March 10, 2026; that point-in-time estimate does not count encampments or establish the size of the Sullivan Street site, according to its HOPE survey results. In a separate historical measure, the New York City Comptroller’s Office found that homeless activity had resumed at 31% of 99 city-cleared encampment sites auditors observed by April 12, 2023. That past sample does not indicate whether the Sullivan Street site was cleared or revisited.
