Gowanus Lounge: Serving Brooklyn

“A Rooster Crows in Brooklyn”

July 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Yesterday it was raccoons. Today, we have roosters, courtesy of a post on Brooklynian:

So, this morning at 7:30 I’m walking towards the subway at 4th and 25th. At 24th and 5th there’s a gas station. I just walk onto the gas stations parking lot when ” cock a doodle doo!” is screeched RIGHT BEHIND ME! Of course I jump in the air. I turn around and…, there’s a big rooster standing there. Other people were walking by like nothing happened. Another day in Brooklyn.

Indeed.

Tags: Animals · Sunset Park

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 James Forsyth // Jul 9, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    A few years ago, there was a rooster in Ditmas Park. One day I was taking the bus into Manhattan and around Ditmas Ave. and Ocean Ave. there was some sort of animal control officer with a net chasing the thing across the lawns. It was a hoot!

  • 2 umbrooklynborn // Jul 10, 2008 at 12:15 am

    how bout Schenectady and Cortelyou Road in the 90’s there were two roosters always walking next to the cemetery, (there is a big Caribbean community out there, of which I am part, so I never bothered to think twice) associate freely…