Posted by Joel Stein on Fri, Nov 08, 2024

I was visiting a friend who lives on Webster Avenue right near Claremont Park. She starts saying she is afraid to walk her dog because of the coyotes in Claremont Park. I'm thinking she's losing it but then her next store neighbor confirms the existence of coyotes in the park.
Has anyone ever heard of this? I know it sounds crazy but two people confirmed it.

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Posted by John S on Sat, Nov 09, 2024

Hey Joel. Their more of them than you thing.The area around the Pell bay track ,The woodlands around the beach, Hell, Co-op is too busy to see them.But across the water, keep an eye out
john

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Posted by Amaranita on Mon, Nov 11, 2024

There are coyotes in Van Cortland Park. There is even a statue of one at the SW entrance to the park. We had a coyote casually walk through our neighborhood a few years ago. There are also deer and opossums in the area. I never figured out how deer just appeared in the Target parking lot one night. The only way for them to get there was to prance down Broadway or the Major Deegan, or take the #1 subway! And yet, no one noticed them.

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Posted by Lobo on Tue, Nov 12, 2024

My first and only Bronx Coyote sighting was back in 1990 on the Deegan Expressway along the jersey barriers on the north bound side. It was about a mile from the x/Bronx to Deegan north entrance ramp, at about the Morris Park area. I stopped and got out thinking it was an injured dog either a Malamute or a Siberian Husky. Hardly any traffic, it was about 1 am in the morning. I was familiar with both breeds, so on closeup I noticed it was neither, but was in denial it could have been a coyote at that time! A friend later from Highway Patrol confirmed that it was indeed a coyote!
In 1985 I worked at Mark Buick in Tuckahoe NY, west of Jackson Avenue near the Sprain Parkway. Behind the property was a stream. One hot summer day, an employee came in and shouted there was a deer at the stream! We all ran out in disbelief, but he was right! The doe was drinking from the stream! We never saw her again after that first sighting.
One well documented case of wildlife in NYC is Jose, "the Bronx River Beaver" back in 2006...the first confirmed beaver in New York City in over 200 years. You can easily read up about Jose, much on him in various Bronx River Alliance writeups.

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