By Gus Saltonstall
A dinosaur appears to be loose on the Upper West Side.
The creature’s tracks were spotted on a recently paved section of sidewalk on West 95th Street, between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West.
Judging by the footprints, it appears to be on the larger size.
The puzzling tracks are not the first mysterious footprints to have appeared in the neighborhood.
In 2021, West Side Rag reported on a set of small footprints that appeared on a sidewalk following a months-long renovation project on Columbus Avenue between West 74th and 75th streets.
Any information on the West 95th Street tracks is welcome.
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Big Bird?
Hmmm…I’m going to be skeptical until I see an actual photo of the dinosaur—given that they allegedly went extinct 😉!
Has anyone checked the inventory at the Museum of Natural History? Or, perhaps it’s those two old guys from England who were making all the crop circles? Hmmm?
CAC Construction has been doing a number on that block and surrounding areas for a few months now on behalf I think of Con Ed. At one point there was a trench almost the whole block with plates covering it. There are plates covering sections of the sidewalk. Down at Amsterdam and 94th when buses and trucks roll over the plates it can be thunderous.
I agree with Ed. Maybe they took a walk out of the Museum of Natural History.
The tracks are actually on 95th between Columbus and Amsterdam and appeared after gas line contractors disturbed a nest of fossil eggs buried for millions of years in a rentcontrlled section beneath the pavement.
Perhaps it is searching for the almond and pretzel piles.
What do you call a mimicking dinosaur?
A thesaurus.
Lol! Maybe an escapee from the AMNH?
I’m thinking that they might be some mutant form of tulip and not dinosaurs at all. Hmmm … love a good mystery!