THAT’S not a dreadlock — this is a dreadlock.
The streets of New York are meant to make you feel brand new, its big lights will inspire you.
And that’s just what happened for one nomadic character, who has turned a Greenwich Village sidewalk into his own personal shanty — much to the chagrin of locals.
Delfine Vizearra is already infamous for his massive ankle-length dreadlock, but he is now also gaining attention from his disgruntled neighbours for all the wrong reasons. More precisely, the shanty he has built out of tarps and boxes on a busy Greenwich Village sidewalk.
A Morton Williams worker told the New York Post that they had called the police on him “many, many times”.
A neighbour admitted that “a lot of people” want to see Vizearra and his braid gone.
Vizearra first started living behind a community garden in Greenwich Village in 2009 before expanding onto the sidewalk.
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He makes about $40 a day begging for money outside a nearby supermarket.
Neighbour Glen De Filippi, 66, told the New York Post that he thinks Vizearra has had pieces added to his dreadlock.
“If he sells it, he could make a million dollars,” he said.
Another neighbour said Vizearra changes his look regularly.
“He braids his beard sometimes,” they said.
“His beard was orange for the last month but now it’s not. That’s his way of expressing himself.”
