A long time ago, Brendan Behan said that New York was “a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.” I’m starting to wonder…in the ten years we’ve been on Broad Street, first we had attack of the non-killer bees, and now we had attack of the bear spray, both within a hundred feet of our front door.
Also, for a long time, pigs roamed free in the streets of New York as ambulatory garbage disposals. Here’s an 1860 image of Five Points in 1827, and note the fat pig on the lower left:
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