A one-bedroom apartment that recently hit the market at 259 West 85th street has a large outdoor terrace with a bountiful garden and two special friends — your very own chickens!
The listing even promises that the chickens will lay an egg every day of the year, which is frankly a lot of pressure on the chickens, and they don’t even get a commission.
If you’ve got the $1.195 million they’re asking (or more if there’s a bidding war of course) you can choose to accept or decline the chickens. The fifth-floor home also produced more than 80 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables on the terrace last year, so hopefully the buyer will have lots of vegetarian friends. Check out the full listing here.
We spent quite some time last year trying to find a mystery squawking chicken in the mid-80’s, but our tipster says that the one she heard is actually on 84th street, not 85th. Geez, how many chickens are there on the Upper West Side?
There is a building just east of us – on the 300-block of 84th, north side of street – that also has chickens. Plural, like more than three. They are guaranteed to lay eggs and annoy neighbors. Would much rather hear the mourning doves, blue jays and hawks.
I love my chickens and unless you have roosters (which don’t lay eggs) they don’t make much noise. Smell..? That’s another story.
Unimpeachable sources, i.e., annonymous commenters on the web, state that while chickens are legal in NYC roosters are not.
I’m glad to see the NYC Council is not a 100% waste of time.
bok bok
I believe in New York State that if you have 4 chickens, you can technically be called a working farm, and get some tax advantages.
That reminds me of other urban myths based on numbers such as 100 foul balls and you’re out, and something about something I can’t write about without risking death by political correctness.
this is when i wish WSR has a “like” button…
Which came first…. the Chicken or the Apartment?