I call it that, but in fact I have no idea whether these recently unboxed chicks are being raised as pets, or for food, or perhaps both.
Or perhaps they're players — in some droll art installation about the decline of rural and then industrial Red Hook — that strut and fret their hour on this storefront stage, then are heard no more.
Sometime later I learned that's it's no act: The birds are hooked up with the Red Hook Poultry Association, a jocular name for a family-run operation that raises "free range backyard Brooklyn chickens," both for eggs and for meat.
Storefront chicken farm
319 Van Brunt St.
Red Hook, Brooklyn
