::UPDATE: foster found! Thank you everyone. 💚Follow on IG @courtstreetcats for updates and adoption info when they’re ready!::

Hi all, 

I’m a cat rescuer in Brooklyn, and I’m looking for a foster home for a mama cat and her 5 newborn kittens - Alice and her beans (Garbanzo, Fava, Lima, Chickpea, and Butterbean). 

I trapped Alice (after a few of weeks of getting her on a feeding schedule) along with her 4 month old kittens Kevin and Bea (also looking for a foster home! See last photo). Kevin & Bea went to temporary foster, and Alice came home with me in the trap I caught her in. I planned to keep her overnight in my bathroom, and evaluate her further the next day because she had a pretty big belly and I thought she was pregnant. When I came to check in on Alice the next day, she was doing fine, and then I ran some errands and came back, and suddenly, there were two kittens with her! She was in labor. She gave birth to 5 healthy kittens in my bathtub! Since then, Alice has gotten braver in my bathroom, leaving the trap to lounge on the toilet or window sill. She allows me to pick up her babies, which gives me the opportunity to weigh them, take progress pictures, etc.

While it is an absolute joy to open my bathroom and find a gaggle of cats/kittens, they deserve a low traffic, calm space to be in,  i.e. a spare room (an office, or bathroom with low to no foot traffic would be amazing!), and I'd really like to be able to shower without reconfiguring my bathroom each time.

Care for Alice and her beans is straight forward - Alice feeds, bathes, and takes care of the babies, you feed and take care of Alice! She eats about 4-5 cans (3 oz) per day, as she uses a lot of calories feeding all of her babies (just like a human mom!), will need to have her litterbox cleaned daily, and a bed with high sides to keep the babies from wandering away. 

What I provide:
- All vetting (any vet visits, medications, etc.)
- A high sided bed to keep everyone together
- Towels/sheets/linens, if needed
- Support (questions answered, advice given in a timely manner)

What you provide:
- A quiet, safe place for Alice and the beans
- Food
- Litter (I can provide a litter box, if requested)
- Pictures and personality descriptions that I can use to help them get adopted. I can give tips for the pics, etc. 

Timeline: the beans need to stay with mom until around 8 weeks, so through the first week in September. Then they can start to be fostered/adopted out, pending avail. Preference will be given to fosters that can commit until everyone is adopted/fostered out. 

This is one of the worst kitten seasons on record, and I could really use someone’s help with fostering this family. Please share this with anyone you know that might be interested in fostering. 

If you’re interested, please send me a DM or go ahead and fill out the application here .I look forward to hearing from you, and working together to save this little family.

Hot dog is a four month old male tuxedo kitten (cherries are still intact) who has received all of his preliminary vaccines, worm, ear mites and flea meds, a SNAP test and is currently crashing with me as a foster kitten. He is currently receiving treatment for a fungal infection for the next few weeks.

Hot dog was found alone, scrounging for food in a backyard in New Jersey where I immediately went to scoop him and bring him back to the VIP life here in Brooklyn. He is a sweet, purring little love bug with a giant meatball head and would make a beautiful addition to a nice home.

He is currently decompressing and spends his days battling nip mice, watching Mad Men and trying to escape the bathroom to spend time with my two resident demons.

Hot dog is available for adoption. Hot dog requires that you have personal and Vet references and he would prefer if you had another cat to plot with.

PS the belly is plush, it is white and it is MAGNIFICENT.

Hi! My friend and I were so excited to go the Shakira concert on Monday, but RIP my flight back to NYC got delayed and now I’m going to miss the show entirely (I hate you, Delta). They have a great view (Section 7, Row 14), so you’ll have a super fun time.

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Hi fellow Brooklyn peeps. You've heard it here first, I am off to Europe and selling the majority of my stuff. All of the decorative/smaller items can be taken immediately, most of the furniture and some kitchen things will need to stay with me until late July/Early August and even pushed into late August if necessary and can be "reserved" with a partial deposit. Serious humans only. Please do not waste my time, it makes my cats sad and is bad for my skin.

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I was walking Saturday night around 9:30 when out of nowhere a shorter black guy jumped in front of my girlfriend and I. He starting mimicking my voice and was blocking our way. We went to move around him and he threw a punch that hit me in the back before running away. Wondering if anyone witnessed this or had a similar experience and can ID the guy. We were in a rush so I did not have time to take a picture or stop to call the police.

On July 26 at 8 PM, Night People (2026)will be screening at Salon on Kingston. Georgina, a woman burdened by the pain of sickle cell anemia, encounters a mysterious figure named Beylin, who offers her a new existence as an Obayifo—a West African vampiric entity. Despite her initial resistance, Georgina becomes increasingly entangled with Beylin and her new reality, culminating in a transformation that sees her balancing the hunger and mercy. The film is set against the hot summer in New York City and examines themes of transformation, spiritual hunger, and the complex relationship between victim and monster.  Please come out and experience an independent art film shot in Brooklyn. Trailer. Tickets.

Hello neighbors,

I am looking for a service or person to clean my apartment, perhaps regularly. Do you have someone you trust and recommend? Thank you so much!

Green Point Knives is back on Fulton & S. Oxford in front of Hungry Ghost!!

I'm a bit embarrassed to share this here, but figured others needed to know. Plus I'm exhausted with people breaking the law and not facing consequences.

This Tuesday, I was walking across Washington Ave at Willoughby and, as I went to cross Washington (with a very clear walk signal) a biker almost hit me zooming down Washington. I calmly said "alright" as he passed. He crossed Willoughby and started shouting back at me as he rode away (I don't know what he said). I yelled at him to "keep riding".

I crossed Washington and start heading south, at which point I see him turn around on his bike further down the block. He starts traveling north, the opposite way he was going, passes me, then takes his bike up on the sidewalk. As he rides toward me I stand there with arms by my side, I look at him and say "what do you have to say?". He proceeds to pull up directly next to me, pulls out a bottle of pepper spray, and sprays me in my face as I quickly duck my head. He then nervously pedals away but stops further down the block on the sidewalk to put his pepper spray away (this is where I took his photo). He was last seen making a right on Lafayette, going against traffic (presumably to get away from me before I could take more photos).

Luckily I was wearing sunglasses and it didn't get in my eyes, but my forehead was burning for a little bit after. I called 911 and police were shockingly there in less than 5 minutes, at which point I described the above, shared the photos with them, and showed them my now red forehead, officially filing a report. They said they would ride around the neighborhood and look for him, but I haven't heard from them since.

So, I'm sharing this photo to a) warn people to stay away from this psycho and b) to see if anyone recognizes him or the bike he's on. Take note of the incredibly bright pink backpack, his tan water bottle, white helmet, white riding gloves (what a nerd....). He's about 6'1", black and male.

For what it's worth, I'm a 5'9" white male in good shape and he still had the confidence to come up right next to me (albeit to be a wuss and use pepper spray). I've lived here for 20+ years...this is a first.

If you do recognize him, please DM me. Stay safe out there.

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