Mews and Nips: Tortie Rescued from Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

As far as rescue stories go, this is one of the more amazing ones I’ve come across recently. Evon Handras, a Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals staffer, was on her way to work when she noticed a cat on top of a five-foot-high concrete ledge running along the expressway. “At first I thought someone must have hit her and then placed her there,” Evon recalled, “but then I realized she was hunkered down with her eyes closed. She was probably alive!”

Evon decided that she needed to try and help the...