sbmarcus wrote:

> I wonder what happened to Tony's pigeon coop on the
> roof of the 560 building in Jersey City? It made Terry Malloy's look like a
> Hoboken slum. Compared to coops that friends of my youth kept in Red Hook
> and Bensonhurst, it was the Trump Tower of pigeon housing, and should have
> certainly been on the NRHP.

My father bred pigeons in Ridgewood, Queens - possibly his flock mixed with
your friend's flocks. We lived in the 80's in an Italian neighborhood in
Brooklyn where we had 1) the pigeon flocks still flying and 2) a distinct
absence of visible criminal activity. The rumor was that burglars venturing
into the area never made it out again. The criminal activity probably had to do
with the hotdog stand across the street that never sold hotdogs, and the black
limo that loaded up with bags of groceries from Gracianos on early Sunday
mornings. We lived in a railroad flat above OTB for five years and other than
the crazy naked lady across the hall insisting that her bottle of Vitalis was
my bottle of Vitalis, and one attempt at a knifing one night, things were
fairly peaceable.--
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