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2,000 Pigeons Will Light Up The Sky At The Brooklyn Navy Yard

(Courtesy BerlinRosen)The Navy Yard is going to the birds… for a massive LED art installation. Artist Duke Riley’s “Fly By Night” [http://creativetime.org/projects/flybynight./], in which over 2,000 trained pigeons produce an LED light show at the Navy Yard [/?s=navy+yard], will start on

Animals

In Defense Of Pigeons: Our Wildlife Expert Daniel Frazer Weighs In

Photo by Daniel FrazerYou’d be hard pressed to walk a street in Brooklyn and not come across a few pigeons. These chunky crumb peckers have become so built into the urban landscape that even those who (misguidedly!) hate them would surely wonder what’s going on if they didn’

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Photo Of The Day: Landing Pad

Circling above 7th Avenue. Take any photos in Park Slope recently? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/], or tag them #parkslope on Instagram, and we’ll post them here. Also, follow us on Twitter [https:

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Photo Of The Day: Pigeon Paparazzi

Park Slope pigeons: Right up there with Patrick Stewart [/?s=patrick+stewart] sightings. Take any photos in Park Slope recently? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/], or tag them #parkslope on Instagram, and we’ll

Complaints

So Much Pigeon Poop In Park Slope

Across the five boroughs, pigeons are wreaking havoc with their ample poop, but nobody complains about it more than Park Slopers. According to a piece in the Times [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/complaints-about-pigeons-mapped/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&] , the most complaints

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Photo Of The Day: Unlikely Pals

Talk about the catbird seat! Photo by thetruthserumco [http://instagram.com/p/gqA3PgkW5M/]. Take any photos in Park Slope lately? Send them to editor@bklyner.com, add them to the Park Slope Stoop Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/parkslopestoop/], or tag them #parkslope on Instagram, and we’ll

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Photo Of The Day: Pigeons

Photo by mbakija [http://snapwidget.com/v/556578298782747647#.Ukt1iWTXjkY]. Snap any photos in the neighborhood lately? Share them with us! Add them to our Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/groups/southslope] group, tag them #southslope on Instagram, or email them to us at editor@bklyner.com and we’ll post

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Cymbrowitz Launches Online “Suggest A Law” Tool

Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz (Source: Cymbrowitz’s office)Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz is incorporating a novel feature on his website that allows people to suggest laws that they would like to see enacted. In a press release, Cymbrowitz unveiled his “There Ought To Be A Law” button, making him the first Assembly

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Say Hello to Pigeons Eating Piles of Garbage on Coney Island Avenue

Recycling pick up has resumed and the city is attempting to bring garbage pick up back to normal, says Community Board 14. Have your sanitation services been restored? It’s not going so great everywhere. Trying to walk down Coney Island Avenue early this afternoon meant avoiding a little obstacle

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Baby Pigeons Hatching on a Ledge

For as many pigeons as there are in NYC, have you ever seen their babies? Neighbor @emilyviola spotted these birds hatching [https://twitter.com/emilyviola/status/226096173730115584] outside her apartment window, and we’re pretty amazed by them! (So long as when they grow up, they stay away from our

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Decomposing Pigeon Corpse: Please, MTA, DOH… Someone — Do Something!

Source: Chicken Underwear / "What You Do Not Know Because You Are Not Me!" “Chicken Underwear,” who blogs over at “What You Do Not Know Because You Are Not Me!” (hey, I just write this stuff), informs us [http://whatyourdonotknowbecauseyouarenotme.blogspot.com/2011/05/another-mta-mess.html] that “As of June 29,

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Pigeon Homing Comes Home To Roost In Southern BK

Source: WNYC.orgWNYC ran a piece the other day [http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2011/apr/09/immigrants-revive-pigeon-culture-new-york/] about a revival in the lost art of pigeon culture, and since it would seem contrived to drop an easy “I coulda been a contendah” reference, I will say this: For

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NYC DOT Saves Birds

[http://www.jrcompton.com/photos/The_Birds/J/July06.html]Courtesy of jrcompton.comWell, it appears the Belt Parkway overpass at Nostrand Avenue (and Shore Parkway) is once again a safe place to film a John Woo flick. In response to yesterday’s post, “NYC DOT Murders Babies [/nyc-dot-murders-babies/],” a