This week I read a story about a 24-hour laundromat on
Delancy Street in New York City. The owner, Bea Kowalski, said the
establishment was oddly warm, even at 3:00 in the morning, when none of the
machines were running. She never knew why until a short time ago, when she had repairmen
in to fix a few of the dryers. The men pulled off the back panel of dryer #9
and discovered thirty-one cottontail rabbits living in the exhaust ductwork.
They’d built tunnels connecting all fourteen industrial-sized dryers, and had
been happily living there at least two years. Animal control officials
relocated the rabbits to a wildlife sanctuary in Dutchess County, about eighty
miles away. Bea reports her laundromat feels chillier without the squatting bunnies.
I tried to share this story with my piano students, but none of them had ever
seen a laundromat, or a dryer big enough for thirty-one rabbits.
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