Olivia Perry
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Stroll through the area around Bushwick and Flushing Avenue on any given day, and your ears might pick up on the indistinct crowing of a rooster. Perhaps you investigate further, or brush it off as a hallucinatory side effect of New York hearing damage; but take a look around and you just might run into Rocky the Rooster.
Rocky belongs to longtime Bushwick resident Angel Luis Seijo, who moved to Brooklyn from Puerto Rico at the age of five. Now 52, Seijo, a former city maintenance man with a short, greying beard and a healthy tan, spends his days kicking back on his favored Bushwick side-street, fixing cars, arguing with Union Local 237 for better labour rights, and occasionally taking on a variety of animals. Adopting Rocky isn’t Seijo’s first rodeo when it comes to strange, unusual — occasionally illegal — pets. Seijo’s track record includes chickens, snakes, and at one point, a pig.
