This is the season when a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love (read: lust). But as Cole Porter told us, “birds do it,” too.
Cindy Adams typically ends her gossip column with: “Only in New York, kids, only in New York.” Well, folks, the fight to save the home of two hawks from some vultures could have only happened in New York. Led by Paula Zahn’s husband, the residents of a Fifth Avenue co-op evicted Pale Male and his baby-mama from their love nest above a cornice on their building.
I’m not a tree-hugger but the story of Pale Male (and here) touched me. So, one cold Saturday I joined the protesters across from Zahn’s co-op. The honks from the passing cars and buses belied the notion that New Yorkers don’t care. In fact, there was such a public outcry the birdbrains were shamed into building a $100,000 nest for the lovebirds.
Fifteen months later, Pale Male and Lola are still doing it high above Fifth Avenue. Only in New York.
