![]() Among other things, there are concerns for rabies, raccoon ringworm (rare in people, but eats at the eyes and brain, and can kill you) and a canine form of coronavirus. More animals living among people and their pets means more potential disease spread, property damage and occasional physical confrontations. In the air, peregrine falcons, red-tailed hawks, bats and rare native bees.Ībove and below, Columbia University grad student Myles Davis sets up camera traps in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, which abounds with animals. In the waters, river otters and beavers (after a nearly 200-year absence, one was recently seen running along a promenade near the Williamsburg Bridge). There are possums, raccoons, deer, coyotes (one turned up last year in Central Park), foxes, rabbits, groundhogs and skunks. So do nearby dumpsters, trash cans, back yards, vacant lots, sewers and abandoned buildings. The city has been expanding its green spaces for decades, and now some 78,000 acres of wetlands, grasslands, forests, cemeteries, parks and community gardens provide habitat and food. New Yorkers, already living in the United States’ most densely populated city, are now sharing space with an increasing number of wild creatures that are good at adapting their diets and hiding places to urban environments. Patrons hooted and cheered as the possum scuttled away and disappeared to parts unknown. Before it was able to order a drink, a young woman (not from here-Alaska, she explained) grabbed it, marched it outside dangled by the scruff of its neck, and set it on the sidewalk. In the meantime, a possum did actually belly into the crowd at Temkin’s Bar in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn one night this summer. ![]() That’s the start of a joke, right? At least it should be the reader is hereby invited to think up the rest and come up with the punch line. (All photos unless otherwise noted: Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute)Ī possum walks into a bar. No blood, no nothing,” she said.New York is increasingly populated by wild native animals that adapt well to urban environments. “I don’t want to see nothing that’s out there. Williams said she doesn’t even want to walk near the parking lot. Girl, you moving up!’ This was Thanksgiving.” And they might give me my own place.’ I said, ‘Beautiful. ![]() She told me - she said, ‘Grandma, I got a job, I got two jobs. ![]() “She’s very friendly with my great-grandchildren,” Williams said. “When she first came here, she introduced herself, and I’ve been a grandma to her ever since,” said Carolyn Williams, 80. Neighbors said Serrano lived in the complex with her boyfriend. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News) Blood and tire tracks are visible at the scene where police said a woman was struck by a vehicle during a domestic dispute in Brooklyn. He’s not for you.’ You know what I’m saying?”īlood and tire tracks were visible the day after the killing in a patch of grass beyond the sidewalk. “I felt like going downstairs and telling her, ‘Just leave that guy alone. “And I’m like, ‘Damn,'” Molina recounted. He hopped in the back of the car and was like, ‘Yo are you really gonna do me like that? I came to your birthday, you was doing this? You don’t love me!’ “He was trying to leave with the side girl in the car. “She was expressing her feelings and emotions, and the guy was just being an a. “All I remember is that they were just arguing,” Molina said of the loud confrontation. He can be seen on the video trying to pick up Serrano’s lifeless body as her arms flailed beneath her. The man with whom Serrano was fighting was taken in for questioning, a source said. Cops were scouring the area Friday seeking information that could help them identify the woman behind the wheel.
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