A black tuxedo cat was spotted clinging to a ledge on the Manhattan-bound side of the Williamsburg Bridge. After first responders rescued him, the thing his shelter cannot stop talking about is how he drinks his water, with a paw planted right in the bowl.
Willie Bee is a five-year-old tuxedo cat, and his path into safety started in about the most frightening place a cat can end up. A passerby on the Williamsburg Bridge spotted him out on a narrow ledge, high above a Manhattan street, with nowhere to go.
What happened next was a scramble. The person who found him called 911, 311, and Animal Services, flagged down a traffic officer stationed on Clinton Street, and stopped by a nearby firehouse, pulling the NYPD’s 7th Precinct, the FDNY, and Animal Care Centers of NYC into the effort to get one small cat down…