Downtown Brooklyn Raccoon Spotted!

So cute

It's a shame the injuries weren't more severe.

I was riding my bike in Prospect Park about a month ago at night. Raccoon darted into the roadway and a guy riding next to me couldn't avoid it -- smashed into the thing. His front wheel collapsed and he flipped over his bike. The raccoon dashed back into the woods (seemingly unscathed); the rider survived -- sore, but no broken bones. The critters are out there!

Raccoons are awesome. Its like a cat, but bigger, and they eat things cats wouldn't dare, like vegetables and bread. Also they love to stand up on their hind legs and give you the "what you looking at son" look. I regularly see raccoons in Northeast Queens out at dusk, 9PM or 6PM. They are even smart enough to cross LIRR tracks on signal towers rather than walk across the third rail (saw 4 raccoons crossing ontop of one). They will starve all the stray cats and dogs of NYC to death.

Dude69, you may have thought yourself clever in using that completely transparent racist remark, but you're not. In fact, it was lazy and inappropriate.

There's a family that lives in my neighborhood, Gerritsen Beach. Take it easy, it's just a raccoon.

I propose banning the hipsters from Billyburg and relocating the racoon population there, and let the coons feast on their soy-based foodstuff. There HAS to be reprecussions for their rowdy and destructive Obama celebrations (hipsters' not the coons')!

I saw a big one climb a tree and eerily peer down at me last Saturday night...Lorimer/Leonard Streets.

while living in park slope I hung up some clothes to dry and the next day they were gone. I wasnt sure what or who took them until the next night my cats were loosing their shit because a huge raccoon was on the fire escape. I was on the 4th floor facing the inner gardens.

Saw a huge one on the southside of Lorimer in BK. My dog wanted to eat him, the fool. He probably would've gotten his ass kicked by the raccoon. Still curios though.

Hate to say it, but if he was brazenly walking around like that in public, he may have been poisoned. and out of his mind.

Fuck!

I had my encounters with them in Marine Park as well. Are they "the NYC rat" of the future.

dont call 311, the park depts drowns them alive.

The areas referenced are in FORT GREENE, not Clinton Hill.

this was probably the same raccoon i saw last night around midnight. it came out of the pratt campus and walked slowly across the street down to dekalb. and yeah, the damn thing is pretty fat.

What's the big deal? Everyone knows that whenever a plumber from Brooklyn touches a leaf, he turns into one of those and flies around.

He'll bite!

Do they eat the homeless?

He better gets relocated...either a mofo or a car will end his urban life.

I'm just waiting to see one of the idiot urbanites around here try to pet a raccoon like they do the deer on Fire Island. OMG, it's an animal! Let's touch it, there's definitely no way it has a disease or will bite us!

I was wondering why the DOT put up all those raccoon shaped speed bumps on the side streets.

He's not heavy, he's my brother

"New Yorkers are reminded to avoid animals acting aggressively or viciously, stumbling or acting disoriented, or wild animals acting unusually tame"

Wild animals acting unusually tame - like this raccoon I suppose - where it's out in the open without a care

Any sightings of Davie Crockett yet?

that is one well-fed raccoon. clearly he eats well, maybe moreso than all the stick-thin people that mope around the city.

He's not spotted... he's striped. :D

Where do yo think Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton got their Racoon Lodge hats from?

I've seen them in Queens as well. They're cute but potentially viscious animals. I hope people don't start trying to pet them.

Raccoons are awesome. They're one of only a few species whose range and numbers have actually increased since the population explosion of humans.

Also, there's some interesting stuff on the raccoon wiki page about their introduction into Germany, France, the Caucauses, and Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racoon#Distribution_outside_North_America

I've seen huge, aggressive families of raccoons on the Dyker Beach golf course nearly every time I've played there the last few months. It would make sense that they would be all over Brooklyn, they're smart scavengers.

New Yorkers are reminded to avoid animals acting aggressively or viciously, stumbling or acting disoriented. So does this mean I should avoid Williamsburg?

We also had a HUGE, very mellow, extremely fluffy and healthy looking racoon in our backyard about two weeks ago, Brooklyn/Queens border of Bushwick and Ridgewood. Urban Ranger Rick!

My girlfriend once called 311 about an injured/dying/possibly diseased squirrel in Washington Square Park. The woman who answered repeatedly told her "we don't deal with birds" before hanging up.

What number do we call to report sick or injured 311 operators?

Perhaps it came from the Central Park on the HOB shuttle?

Hell, there's a family of them that root around our trash bins, but I'm closer to Prospect Park, so there probably tons of them in there.

I was on my way home one night at about 4 A.M. when i saw a massive racoon cross the street about 100 feet in front of me. It must have been 3 or 4 feet long. This was in Queens.

I was on my way home one night at 4 A.M. when i saw a massive racoon cross the street about 100 feet in front of me. It must have been 3 or 4 feet across. This was in Queens though.