Roosevelt Islanders got together over concerns about our local wild turkey after she got stuck inside the subway station. Rescuing Rosie, it turns out, took a team effort.
by David Stone
The Roosevelt Island Daily News
First person responding positively to our request for information was RIOC Communications Director Bryant Daniels. “I saw her yesterday afternoon,” he told The Daily. But he seemed to be the only one, and he was checking with Public Safety for any reports.
Then, late yesterday afternoon, Paul Krikler spotted Rosie near the sidewalk behind 405 Main Street. Like a true animal lover, he took a live video of himself greeting her. He posted it on Facebook.
Just before that, Deborah Julian photographed Rosie lingering around the front entrance at 405. We found no evidence confirming that she was trying to say, “Thank you,” to residents of the building, like Rachel Dowling, for supporting her rescue. But we still think that’s what she was doing.
But the best news came a little later.
Rescuing Rosie
Roosevelt Island is heavy with animal and nature lovers. You could see it in the way so many rallied around Rosie when she claimed this community as her home. Photos and videos of her abound on social media.
Yet it gets even better. Few communities will ever find neighbors working together like what Roosevelt Islander Susan Ceely Philips posted on Facebook:
“Four of us worked together to get her out of the subway ledge behind the machines,” she wrote. One man was behind her with a plastic bag to envelop her if necessary. A woman held the door open. I managed traffic to make everybody go through the far door so that they wouldn’t block her exit, and then another man came and blocked her passage back into the subway station. It took a village and she flew the coop.”
Hats off again to Roosevelt Islanders doing the right thing when it counts.
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