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Yes, We Totally Have Raccoons in Bushwick and Here’s What You Need to Know About Them

Yes, raccoons have been living in New York City for ages, and Bushwick is no exception

Yes, We Totally Have Raccoons in Bushwick and Here’s What You Need to Know About Them
Curious Raccoon (photo by Paxson Woelber via Wikipedia Commons)

Yes, We Totally Have Raccoons in Bushwick and Here’s What You Need to Know About Them

Yes, raccoons have been living in New York City for ages, and Bushwick is no exception

Yes, We Totally Have Raccoons in Bushwick and Here’s What You Need to Know About Them

Yes, raccoons have been living in New York City for ages, and Bushwick is no exception. I have seen a couple of raccoons myself, whether it was in my backyard (nope, that wasn’t an oversized cat) or even one by 56 Bogart building (that was an artsy raccoon coming home from Theodore:Art opening, I suspect). Alexander Ritthaler, one of our beloved readers and a Bushwick resident of two years sent us an email about his own raccoon experience recently:

“I was walking down Irving, near Jefferson Ave (not Jefferson St-it’s right by to the Halsey L stop). I saw what I thought was a cat run across the sidewalk…

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