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Spate of Raccoon Sightings in Crown Heights

A Raccoon on the front steps of a Crown Heights home. Cellphone photo sent in by a reader.

Over the last few weeks CrownHeights.info has been alerted to many raccoon sightings around the neighborhood. Raccoons pose significant health risks to humans, ranging from rabies to strains of ringworm disease, which can be deadly.

If you spot a raccoon do not engage it, their behavior can be unpredictable and they may attack.

Call 311 and file a report with the Department of Health.

A good way to keep raccoons from hanging around your home is to secure garbage in its proper containers.

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22 Comments

  • shimon

    of course raccoons like crown heights. they know we won’t turn them into hats.

  • They love rats

    Not so fast mice and rats are their favorite meal!

    Ask people in Mill Basin that’s where they come from.

  • sr

    I think these were brought to NY to help get rid of the rats, so no use calling 311.

  • Don-t be silly not the fungus is deadly

    It’s the rabies that is deadly.

  • You call that a raccoon?

    The ones we have in MTL are the size of miniature horses….

  • Bubby

    If we don’t feed the rats we won’t need raccoons to get rid of them, we keep seeing challah and rolls out near the garbage, people might think they are feeding the birds, but food on the ground is an open invitation for the rats, the rats then rip the garbage bags and there’s more food on the ground.
    So please take care of your garbage, use bins and clean up.
    Thank you.

  • raccon

    in montreal their “residents” you are not allowed to harm them and their huge!

  • cans

    put your garbage bags in garbage cans.

    On the pavement is not the place.

  • Are you kidding me??!!

    I would rather raccoons then rats and mice. And unfortunately, CH has both. Gotta move out of this place.
    And the raccoons sit on my window sill every night.

  • montrealer fan of RACCOONS!

    actually in Mtl, they are black, not brown-maybe in the same family as the ones in CH!!!! We usually c them @ nite, not @ day & they LOVE GARBAGE!!!!! but the are cute :)

  • who cares

    racoons don’t come out in the day unless they’re sick
    so call 311.

  • sophia

    I just heard o loud nose in my yard only to see 2 big racoons! on top of my shed.