A man and his tiger

Avenue A between Ninth Street and St. Mark's Place early this evening.

Photo by Steven

[Updated] Tiger beat

EVG reader Andrew spotted this yesterday on Avenue A and East Second Street …

It looked familiar…


[EVG file photo]

We checked in with the now-former owner of the Cadillac with the Tiger in it.

This one is NOT the same tiger, though he certainly would make for a nice companion, says the now-former owner of the Cadillac with the Tiger in it.

Anyway, just so you know what you're dealing with here.

Updated 4:02 p.m.

This tiger is apparently on the prowl! Andrew just spotted it on East Third Street between Avenue A and Avenue B…

[Updated] In case you were going to go look at those baby tigers today...

[Photo by BB]

It's closed, via Matt LES_Miserable ... As Gothamist pointed out on Friday, two five-month-old female Bengals (Sonia and Tanya) were part of Norwegian artist Bjarn Melgaard's "Ideal Pole" exhibit at the Ramiken Crucible gallery on Grand Street.

[Katie Sokoler/Gothamist]

No word on why the exhibit is closed. Or if the tigers will be back. They were scheduled to be there until June 3. Gothamist wrote, "We've reached out to the Humane Society of the U.S. to find out what the rules are about this sort of thing, because that cage looks too small to us."

Updated 3:31 p.m.:

Gothamist received a statement from the Human Society of the United States. Part of the statement:

The baby tigers on display at the Ramiken Crucible gallery were prematurely removed from their mothers, transported to New York from a game farm in Ohio that has been cited for failing to meet minimum standards of the federal Animal Welfare Act, and are confined to a tiny barren cage inside an art gallery.