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The Ringling Brothers Circus is considering pitching a tent at Coney Island this summer, but the most obvious location for the show, the now-desolate Astroland site on the Boardwalk, was nixed because of developer Joe Sitt and his company Thor Equities.

Time Out NY has a list of PETA's most wanted in the city. The organization has 25,000 of its 1.6 million members based right here, and while we wish they'd have a crack team of those members targeting folks like Brooklyn's Cruella DeVil, here are some of the big offenders.

Last night the Ringling Brothers circus arrived in Manhattan. As usual, the elephants did the final leg of the journey to Madison Square Garden on foot, because they're a little too big to truck or train into the city. The running was a delayed by a car accident on the Queens side of the Midtown Tunnel-- word from the cops on the scene was that the police had to clean up a bunch of glass before it was safe for the elephants to walk. By 1:30am, the scene on the Manhattan side was totally crazy-- after waiting for an hour in the freezing cold, most of the onlookers and reporters were totally giddy with hypothermia.

Last night, Ringling Brothers Circus arrived in Manhattan by way of the Midtown Tunnel. The main attraction was the running of the elephants up 34th Street around 12:30am. The scene was wonderful chaos- a pack of ten or more elephants, followed by horses, shetland ponies, and two or three squads of PETA protesters. A bunch of the photobloggers were on hand to document the happening- throw a link in the comments and we'll add them to this list:

Gothamist was there when the elephants from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey finally arrived, at 12:35am on a snowy Wednesday morning. The scene was wild- music, cheering, clapping, screaming. The elephants, however, seemed calm and healthy. More pictures at Bluejake.

The Mayor welcomed Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Circus to City Hall. Yes, it's circus time, which means the Knicks and Rangers are on the road from mid-March till mid-April. Not that end of the season games are important or anything.

"In the end, we did what we were supposed to do," Mayor Bloomberg said. "Operation Atlas has been implemented. It works. We are on top of things." Via New York Times What actually happened on the Williamsburg bridge yesterday.