While most New Yorkers hate pigeons, I love them, so I had to share this post from the New York Public Library's blog.
My grandfather used to keep pigeons on his rooftop when he was a boy, and his mother used to say: "Mangiano d'oro, cacano piombo" (they eat gold, they crap lead).
I lived in New York for a couple of years when I was a child (19 and 20 years old)and I loved the pigeons. I guess it was a homesickness think - my favorite fountain at home (Austin) had lots of them, too. They never offended me, and I never completely understood why they bothered folks so much.
ReplyDeleteTo me they are so beautiful with their iridescent wings, and each one so different.
ReplyDeleteI recall referring to NYC pigeons as "gutter squabs" in a verse epistle to a friend, shortly after I first moved to Brooklyn. That's not too shabby a designation, if I say so myself, but it may have been stolen...
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