The venerable CBC Radio program As It Happens beat the new Gawker to a perfect, new kind of Gawker story. A profile of one of New York’s last pigeon keepers.
Anton van Dalen, a 77-year-old Dutch native who grew up in Toronto before coming to the U.S. in 1975, has been taking care of a rooftop, snow-white brood since the late 1980s. At the same NYC address that he has occupied since 1972. From the radio report:
He tends to his 43-member flock on the rooftop of his East Village apartment building, where he trains them to fly together – putting on a nightly show for the pedestrians below.
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