April 12, 2004
Downtown is Turkey Town
The big bird downtown is not Mayor Bloomberg but Zelda the Battery Park turkey who stopped traffic when she wandered onto the West Side Highway yesterday. The amazing thing is that cars skidded to avoid her (Gothamist finds this amazing because drunk drivers manage to humans which are larger than turkeys; sure, Zelda was walking around during the day when people are sober, but still, there is no excuse for drunk driving). The Fire Department retrieved Zelda, who later went to roost atop P.S. 234 on Greenwich Avenue. One firefighter explained, "We got him by covering him with a fire jacket and stuffed him in a cage - I suppose I shouldn't say stuffed. We were sent on a wild-goose chase and it was pretty tiring - we were running for quite a while." The Parks Department tells the Daily News that they suspect Zelda was out looking for attention because "it's the bunny's day, not the turkey's." Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe also calls Zelda the mascot of Battery Park and says she can stay there as long as she wants, as long as she remains well-behaved.
Gothamist previously on Zelda and on Giuliani, the Riverside Park turkey. And even though it's in poor taste to bring up eating turkey, we love the idea of Turducken.
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jeez, i saw that turkey down there a couple weeks ago but for some reason i convinced myself it was a peacock.
if you love the idea of the turducken, wait until you try the taste... i took back years of slagging off John Madden at the first bite.
Jen -
Where;s the post about MoveOn.org's Bake Back the White House? It's this Saturday...across the nation.
I'm gonna be walking from Brooklyn to MLK Jr. Blvd. eating baked goods...
Weapons of Mass Deliciousness (29 baker(s)/helper(s)) 86th & Lex 10:00AM
Come and enjoy some good spring weather, sell a muffin, register a voter.
Raise money under the trees, so we can prune the Bushes" (45 baker(s)/helper(s))
Central Park: The Imagine Circle at Strawberry Fields, Enter at west 72 street 12:00 PM
Eat, Drink, and be Merry: Come Help us to Elect Kerry! (4 baker(s)/helper(s))
Metropolitan Ave. Williamsburg, Brooklyn 12:00 PM Come join us at Williamsburg's famous 24-hour laundromat....do your laundry AND support a good cause! What a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.....
(B) EAT BUSH (3 baker(s)/helper(s))
Bedford Ave at 6th St.
Brooklyn, NY
cookies decorated to look like beautiful vaginas. 12:30PM
Cake Based Initiative (4 baker(s)/helper(s))
2200 8th Avenue 5B (119th Street)
New York, NY 03:00 PM
Get your gourmet madeleines, cupcakes, brownies and cookies at this Harlem cake based initiative.
Anyway, just look up your zip code on the moveon.oprg website for the stoop nearest you.