New York is a city where fetish for the new is exceeded only by fetish for the newer. Technology and modernism rule. Nothing can stand in the way of [insert dramatic music] PROGRESS. Yet how is it then that a city with such a short attention span and whose residents pride themselves on a lack of mushy sentimentalism can be so moved by the plight of a bird's nest?
Apparently, a nest housing two red-tailed hawks was destroyed from a co-op building on Fifth Avenue. Earlier, some residents had complained that the birds left the bloody carcasses of their prey on the roof and sidewalk, and their nest created a safety hazard as parts of it fell to the sidewalk, threatening pedestrians.
Yet yesterday, [M]ore than 100 protesters who gathered opposite the co-op building to object.
I'm sure that the fame of several of the co-op's residents, including Mary Tyler Moore and Paula Zahn, didn't hurt the cause's prospects for making it not only into the tabloids, but into the venerable New York Times ("All the News That's Fit to Print"). A documentary maker is apparently interested as well.
Perhaps this explains why folks in upstate New York and NY City residents may never quite understand each other. Gothamites can tolerate thousands homeless people living on the streets without batting an eyelash. But two homeless birds provokes citywide scandal.
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"Gothamites can tolerate thousands homeless people living on the streets without batting an eyelash. But two homeless birds provokes citywide scandal."
I guess I'll have to agree with you a 100% on this one.
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