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What do you get when a coyote walks into a parking garage? Well, not a joke, for one thing.
On Tuesday at about 9:30 a.m., a wild canine was spotted walking by Sterling Parking, an Upper East Side parking garage at 305 East 80th Street (between First and Second avenues).
“Unusual morning, we had a coyote in the garage. It’s not a regular day,” garage employee Charles Toogood told NBC News. “We were amazed that there was a coyote here.”
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The NYPD Emergency Service Unit arrived on the scene and tranquilized the coyote, and then the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) came by at around 11:30 a.m. to remove it, NBC News reported.
Video shared by PIX11 News showed officers guiding the coyote into a cage and then into the back of a patrol car. The news outlet added that a spokesperson for the DEC said that the coyote has since been taken to a rehabilitation center in Westchester.
Although it’s unusual for coyotes to be seen in residential parts of the Upper East Side, coyotes have been spotted in Central Park since at least the 1930s, according to the Central Park Conservancy.
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