Photograph of a seal sitting on the kayak launch at 72nd Street and Riverside Park by Eric Carvin/AP Earlier this week, iReport had a video of a really cute harbor seal spotted off Red Hook [Via Brownstoner] - the video is below (it's an auto-play and it's seriously awww-worthy)! Besides being ridiculously cute, the video brings back a flood of memories of various seal sighting in the city. There was Gowana, the harp seal......

Thank you, NY Times photographer Suzanne Dechillo, for your amazing picture of the little harp seal that's hanging out downtown. Gothamist loves how the harp seal is waving - we have goosebumps! The photograph was for a story about how this harp seal has been hanging out on a "floating dock" near Battery Park for a few days (they usually are up North, in the Arctic or Canada). The seal seems to be okay,......

Dead bodies, oildrums, garbage from 1964, these are things that you'd expect to find in the Gowanus Canal. But not a harp seal. The Times reports on the 1 year-old harp seal who has defied the laws of science by living and apparently surviving in the Gowanus. The president of the Gowanus Industrial Park, John Quadrozzi Jr. (who calls the waters of the Gowanus "pretty disgusting") saw the seal when it emerged, hurt and......