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For more than seventy years The Algonquin Hotel in Midtown Manhattan has been world famous for having a cat freely roam the lobby much to the delight of its guests.
Well, no more. Inspectors from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygeine have seen fit to order the Algonquin to banish Matilda III from the lobby and place her on a leash behind the check out desk or out of sight on upper floors. It seems that the city government view Matilda III as a public health menace because she could contaminate food is served in the lobby despite the fact no one has got sick much less sneezed. How excessively bureaucratic. Or should I say "bureaucatic."
Leave it to Nanny Bloomberg's administration to create a problem where none existed.
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Bob K.| 11.25.11 @ 10:13PM
Manhattan isn't much fun anymore.
Bob K.| 11.25.11 @ 10:42PM
Which probably explains why the Mayor goes back to Bermuda whenever a snowstorm threatens.
albert constantine jr.| 11.26.11 @ 9:06AM
As the late, great Chairman of the Board (and Liza Minelli before him) might have sung:
"I want to wake up in a city that has no cats,
or cigarette smoke and dangerous fats".
bfwebster| 11.26.11 @ 9:32AM
== facepalm ==
I stayed at the Algonquin earlier this year and was delighted to see Matilda, which happened while (gasp!) I was eating breakfast. Once again, you get the government you vote for....
David W| 11.26.11 @ 10:41AM
Wait, wasn't it this same mayor who allowed the socialists at OWS to basically destroy a park with drugs, human waste, and rape? Is he mentally ill?
Clint| 11.26.11 @ 3:11PM
These Authoritarian Control Freaks Are The Neo-Totalitarian Dictatorship.
Rise Up In Rebellion.
martin j smith| 11.27.11 @ 8:20AM
Aaron this is why Socialists of Democrat or Republican type are dangerous. Give them a finger and they take the whole body.
FastJohnny| 11.28.11 @ 8:38AM
First they came for our cats....