the pink politic

Busy kitties & a historical home

I learned two interesting things in the past few days that could turn into story ideas...

The first one, courtesy of a distressed caller into an NPR show discussing the effects of the unusually warm Northeast, was that because of the rise in temperatures, the number of feral (wild!) cats in New York City was rising. Female cats were having more litters - the typical two per year was turning into three or four - because of the heat (pun intended). "Support your local animal shelter!" implored the representative from the Urban Cat League. "Remember to have your pets spayed or neutered," Bob Barker was saying somewhere.

And the second fun fact, according to today's NYTimes, is that my apartment building was once a turn-of-the-century hotel, a building described as "one of Broadway’s most sophisticated works." Ohh! I'd love to know more of the history of this building. It's hardly fancy, but it does have a large center staircase that leads all the way from the lobby to the penthouse. I'm learning to appreciate the building's lovely architecture as a huge, glass, ritzy apartment building, one that can be seen from a mile away, is slowly being constructed next door and overshadowing our little slice of history.

posted by Tina @ 6:56 PM