As Hinata Sato opens the gates to an overgrown lot at the Columbia Street Waterfront, dozens of cats emerge from makeshift shelters, discarded wooden pallets, and traffic barrels. A colony of more than 30 feral felines has called the patch near the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey piers their home for some two decades, drawn by the nooks and crannies among stacked containers and idle trucks, and local animal lovers have taken care of the roaming furballs ever since. “It’s like a special spell from the cats that I’m under. I picture cats eating and it just brings me joy,” says Sato, a local restaurant manager who, along with about half a dozen other volunteers, is part…
Park Slope woman rescues chicken, promptly names it Elizabeth Warr-hen
She has a plan for that chicken! A kind-hearted Park Sloper rescued a wayward rooster she discovered strutting along Union Street on Thursday, before sending her to live on a farm in Vermont — but not before she named the bird Elizabeth Warr-hen! Molly Sandley found the chicken — which is male, despite being named after the female presidential candidate — between Sixth and Seventh avenues at 6 pm, trying roost atop of an eight-foot inflatable Santa Claus, according …