Brooklyn wildlife, artistic & virtual, spans the animal kingdom

Wild animals of all sorts inhabit the Brooklyn neighborhood — some in person, some in paintings, some in statues, and some in legend.

Proximity to the Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge allows deer, coyotes, raccoons, opossums, skunks, and other wildlife easy access to the neighborhood. Anyone who has left out a dish of dry cat food on their porch has likely been visited by a possum or two, or a family of raccoons — which often spend their daylight hours asleep under neighborhood porches.