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PLUCK YOU.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 03-JAN-05

Author: Paumgarten, Nick
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COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

A couple of weeks ago--on a real Christmas-miracle kind of day, cold and heartless in every other respect--the city's two most famous homeless guys both caught a break. First, of course, there was Pale Male, the celebrity hawk and victim of the hour, who had been rendered nestless six days earlier, when the co-op board of 927 Fifth Avenue semi-surreptitiously dismantled the rampart of sticks that he and various mates had called home since 1993. Hounded and shamed by the usual coalition of bird-lovers and co-op haters, besieged by hawk chic, the building agreed to take Pale Male back. Crisis, if not revolution, averted.

Then, there was Al...

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