An animal rescuer stopped traffic Tuesday on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to save a cat that was stranded on the side of the highway.
Anne Levin, 43, grabbed the frozen-with-fear feline from beneath the Brooklyn Heights Promenade.
“We just put blinkers on and went really slow,” Levin recalled as she waited in a vet’s office to have the animal checked out.
“New York drivers were shockingly polite,” she said. “Usually, they stop and honk. Everyone went around us.”
Levin heard about the female feline via an animal rescue Facebook group.
Kevin Wolff, 44, originally spotted the kitty while on his way to work Monday.
“There was a lot of traffic and it was going pretty slow,” he recalled. “I just looked over and I saw her. She wasn’t moving, so I wasn’t sure she was alive. So I came around again and took a picture.”
Wolff, a Verizon construction worker, reached out to an animal rescuer in Queens, who got in touch with Levin.
“It was in our neighborhood. You try to do what you can,” said Levin, president of Brooklyn Bridge Animal Welfare Coalition.
Levin, who also manages the Brooklyn Cat Café, tossed a towel over the cat and pushed her into a carrier.
With the help of a friend, she drove the cat to Park Slope Veterinary Center where she was diagnosed with a massive tail injury. The tail will likely need to be amputated.
“It looks like she was probably thrown out,” Levin said.
But she’s in good hands now, and a plan for her recuperation is being made.
“The café adoption space is not an ideal space for that,” Levin said. “We’ll get her a good foster home until she’s healthy.”
