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September 1: THE PIGEON GAME Screening at the Tenement Museum, NYC

Wednesday, September 1 at 6:30 pm
The Pigeon Game: A Documentary Work-in-Progress
Co-Sponsored by City Lore
Tenement Museum Shop, 108 Orchard Street (Delancey)
F to Delancey; B/D to Grand; J/M/Z to Essex
212-982-8420; rsvp to:events@tenement.org
Free

The Pigeon Game is a documentary on the disappearing culture of homing pigeon racing in New York City. Unknown to most people, there are still men and women who raise birds on their rooftops and race them from distances up to 600 miles. The scenes of Marlon Brando at his pigeon loft in On the Waterfront may have secured the sport in the history of the city, but The Pigeon Game proves that the tradition still exists today among a small but dedicated group of fliers. Join us for a screening of a new, twenty-minute clip of the documentary-in-progress and a talk with a historian, a pigeon racer and the filmmaker.