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Can You Caption This Photo?

January 18, 2023 | 11:22 AM
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WSR contributor Allan Ripp sent in the above photograph, taken under the scaffolding at 360 Central Park West at W. 95th Street. Such a great photo deserves a great caption. Can you think of one?

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Jon
Jon
8 months ago

Mission Impossible UWS Edition

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Scott
Scott
8 months ago

Tom Raccruise

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EdNY
EdNY
8 months ago

“From the time I was 3 years old I always knew I was a bat in a raccoon’s body.”

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Joey
Joey
8 months ago
Reply to  EdNY

BATCOON

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Julie
Julie
8 months ago

Rocky Ripcord

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stabby
stabby
8 months ago

Don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious

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Judy Harris
Judy Harris
8 months ago

Ninja raccoon

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Ed P
Ed P
8 months ago

I heard there was a couch? (Throwback to the couch in a tree saga of West 95th St.)

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Carol
Carol
8 months ago
Reply to  Ed P

LOLLLLLL

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Steevie
Steevie
8 months ago

I am doing this for exercise if you must know and I don’t like being stared at.

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Kim
Kim
8 months ago

Nothing to see here….

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Glitchy
Glitchy
8 months ago

I am invisible.

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Lauri S
Lauri S
8 months ago

2023: A Space Odyssey

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Lawrence Braverman
Lawrence Braverman
8 months ago

“Shh! You don’t see me- I’m not even here!”

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Richard Chused
Richard Chused
8 months ago

Between a rock and a hard place.

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J.L.
J.L.
8 months ago

Rocky spotted Davy Crockett subletting at this building.
Or
Why is this strange man pointing an Apple gadget at me.

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Edgar A. POEt
Edgar A. POEt
8 months ago

Hey, figure-out how to get me down and I’ll be your best friend!

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JohnG
JohnG
8 months ago

“Help! I can’t hold this building up much longer!”

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gg2
gg2
8 months ago

“I was told there was going to be garbage!? Nobody said anything about all these rats”

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gg2
gg2
8 months ago

Once they’ve seen the big city, you can’t keep them down in the black mining hills of Dakota…

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gcos
gcos
8 months ago

This was a bad idea…

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Gretchen
Gretchen
8 months ago

Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!

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Steve L
Steve L
8 months ago
Reply to  Gretchen

Help! I’ve risen and i can’t get down!

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Mark P
Mark P
8 months ago

Anything edible’s good to me, but something different about those…

Last edited 8 months ago by Mark P
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West Side mama
West Side mama
8 months ago
Reply to  Mark P

lol

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S. Hayes
S. Hayes
8 months ago

You looking at me? I’m the only one here…

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Julia Z.
Julia Z.
8 months ago

Police are still searching for the masked bandit who fled the scene at 95th street.

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Mark Moore
Mark Moore
8 months ago

Not a caption, but I’ve seen raccoons in that same scaffolding before. Same building.

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Keith
Keith
8 months ago

Stop or I’ll pee.

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Richard Robbins
Richard Robbins
8 months ago

The right pedestrian should come by any minute….

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Nina Edwards
Nina Edwards
8 months ago

Not Batman….Raccoonman!

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jept
jept
8 months ago

Just looking for a one bedroom …..

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Wijmlet
Wijmlet
8 months ago

High and dry

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Helene Russo
Helene Russo
8 months ago

Where’s the air mattress?

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Mark Schubin
Mark Schubin
8 months ago

C’mon, Crockett! This ain’t exactly comfortable!

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Don Laventhall
Don Laventhall
8 months ago

Help!

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Steve Rotterdam
Steve Rotterdam
8 months ago

Not having exact change, Rocky devised an alternate means of catching the M10.

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E Lang
E Lang
8 months ago

Raccoons Are the Dimmest People.

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Sheila Crystal
Sheila Crystal
8 months ago

She said Swallowing those magnets wouldn’t do anything!

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Steve L
Steve L
8 months ago

Help! I’ve risen and I can’t get down.

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Randy Jay
Randy Jay
8 months ago

Raccacoonie!

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d. gary winter
d. gary winter
8 months ago

How about this caption: “And you thought that beings perched like this only happened in the movie “Matilda”?

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StevenCinNYC
StevenCinNYC
8 months ago

I believe I can fly… If I just believe it, there’s nothing to it…

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Bracha
Bracha
8 months ago

And now, for my next number!

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Nancy
Nancy
8 months ago

Hiding in plain sight

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Sophie
Sophie
8 months ago

“Okay… now what…?”

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K Falk
K Falk
8 months ago

Cheese it! It’s the cops!

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Carol
Carol
8 months ago

It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s Raccoonman!

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Les
Les
8 months ago

Great view for scoping out meals

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R.J.
R.J.
8 months ago

Elite personal trainer @Equinox. $200/hr. @CoonMan

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AD Junior
AD Junior
8 months ago

I don’t care what you say, no job is worth this

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Susan Westsider
Susan Westsider
8 months ago

Look up in the sky,… it’s a bird!, I t’s a plane! it’s a raccoon??

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Wendy
Wendy
8 months ago

“I didn’t do it”!

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Carol Brewet
Carol Brewet
8 months ago

Going for the gold .

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