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The menagerie of New York: A colorful look at the ‘Wild City’

Post author By Greg Young
Post date June 17, 2020
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While traipsing through Red Hook a couple months ago, I happened upon a family of raccoons camped out underneath a pick-up truck. New York City is actually a bit of a zoo — if you open your mind to what constitutes a star attraction. Sure, we don’t have lions wandering around (thankfully), but what zoo… Read More

Tags animals, beavers, Bowery Boys Bookshelf, cats, dogs, oysters, rats

Those Were The Days

Cat-astrophe! Hungry felines attack a Lower East Side butcher

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date January 24, 2014
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Presented without commentary, from the front page of Â the New York Sun, January 24, 1914: “Policeman James Kenny, trudging along James Street at 10 o’clock last night, heard horrendous sounds coming from the market of Brighton Beef Company at No. 72. Â A hundred drunken burglars couldn’t have made more noise. Kenny, remembering that a bomb… Read More

Tags butcher, cats, New York Police Department