Rosie the Roosevelt Island turkey on the hunt for love in Manhattan and causing chaos for residents, traffic: Trying to make herself known

And Rosie couldn’t help but wonder — would she have to brave the concrete jungle for her shot at love?Roosevelt Island’s celebrity turkey has flown the coop for Midtown East, where, like Carrie Bradshaw before her, she’s searching in vain for a finance bro willing to settle down.But the horny bird’s quest for love is causing nothing but chaos — the NYPD has been desperately trying to corral the lovebird over the last few days after she caused multiple traffic jams and trespassed onto numerous high-rise balconies.“You get the idea that she’s trying to make herself known to any other turkeys that might be out there.She wants to meet a male turkey,” David Barrett, of Manhattan Bird Alert, told The Post Tuesday.Rosie ditched her East River paradise Sunday for the first time since she moved to the island a year ago and immediately started showing major changes in her behavior, according to Barrett.Most glaringly, she has been singing pining love songs through the streets of the bustling nabe — known for its overflowing pool of finance bros, well-heeled shoppers and, recently, Andrew Cuomo.Even before making the pilgrimage to Midtown, Rosie had been moving further south to check out other hotspots of Roosevelt Island she had never visited before in hopes of orchestrating a meet-cute.Unfortunately for Rosie, the only known city turkey populations reside in far-flung northern Bronx and in Staten Island.Since arriving in Manhattan, the lovebird has only caused mayhem — prompting one concerned resident to call 911 Tuesday morning after watching Rosie walk directly into traffic near Sutton Place.At least 15 cops tried to pounce on the feathered phenom Tuesday morning on 58th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues, just a crow’s fly away from her home on Roosevelt Island.The attempts were in vain, however, with Rosie expertly hiding herself in the foliage and even tauntingly flying directly over an NYPD van to parts unknown.The spectacle was more than unu...

Read More 
PaprClips
Disclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by PaprClips.
Publisher: New York Post

Recent Articles