You may recall that Steve Cohen once said, ““We have learned through three years of conversations with the people who live and work in Queens that serving the interests of the communities surrounding Citi Field must be at the center of this project,”
Well Steve, the cats need you.
Living in the dust of the Iron Triangle just steps from Citi Field, a colony of grimy and malnourished cats have called the neighborhood home for nearly a century.
As many as 100 felines have already been pushed out of the fields and into the shrinking auto body sector, which is expected to be the next chunk of land leveled to make room for the incoming soccer stadium, retail haven and residential space.
Further displacement would mean marching them to certain doom, animal activists warn.
“They have nowhere to go but to their death. Nowhere to go,” Regina Massaro, the founder of Spay Neuter Intervention Project (SNIP) NYC. (via NY Post)
Steve Cohen, not just the owner, but also a fan of Mets history must remember that in 1969 a cat helped jinx the Cubs. The Mets and cats go back 5 decades!
Surely Steve will not leave the cats to fend for themselves when a nice healthy check (“lunch money” for the sort of fellow who has been known to wrote large checks) could help these cats.
Nice job by the Post bringing this issue to light, and hopefully this makes Mr. Cohen’s radar. After all..
, Bryan Kortis of Neighborhood Cats emphasized that hope is not yet lost — but said someone needs to take action before the cats leave on their own and spread the problem elsewhere.
“When you have that type of displacement, and there’s no strategy, there’s no management, it’s just whatever happens that happens to them. They don’t stick around and wait for the bulldozers to kill them; they’re gonna disperse. And they’re gonna disperse to wherever the closest food source and shelter that they can find,” (Bryan) Kortis told The Post.
