It's Like Humans of New York, But For Cats...

“Oh sure, New York is great. It’s never occurred to me to live anywhere else. They talk about travel all the time, but I don’t even know where I am right now, so why would I need to go somewhere else? I would like to go outside though. There’s birds out there. So many birds. So, so many birds.” - Maebe, Brooklyn

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"I’d look at you, but I’m kind of upset right now.”
“Why?”
“I just knocked a glass off the table.”
“That’s why you’re upset?”
“No, I’m upset because it didn’t break.”
- Gary, Queens

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"I try to live by that Maya Angelou quote: ‘I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.’" "How do you think you make people feel?" "Needed, but also not needed at all. And completely unappreciated." - Motley, Manhattan
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“The lady brought these empty boxes home and I thought ‘finally, some real furniture.’ But then she said we were moving to California. She seems kind of stressed about it. I just want the boxes to be empty again.” - Cleo, Williamsburg

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“Sometimes I come in here to think.” - Pearl, Astoria Queens

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“I heard this mouse on the floor and I was like ‘Not in my house!’ then I killed it. Pretty quick too.”
“That mouse there? That’s a toy.”
“No it’s not, it’s a dead mouse. It’s been dead for months.”
“Ok.”
- Tanooki, Queens

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"I fucking hate parties." - Mimi, Williamsburg
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"Ok, tell me when you’re going to take the shot. I’m posing, but I’m trying not to look posed. Make it look candid."
"I can’t make it look candid if you’re posing like that."
"Well, I’m trying to look stoic, deep in thought."
"Just pose, you look great."
- Grandpa, Williamsburg

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"We moved here because New York had an amazing live music scene. It’s a lot of electronic kid shit now, but that’s fine. I’m not really allowed to leave the house anyway."
- Nala, Williamsburg

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"My grandparents immigrated here from New Jersey with nothing, and now I have this box. I wish they could see me. They’d be like ‘How the fuck did you get that box? We never had a box.’ But I don’t know, the box just kind of showed up so I sat in it."
Jeddy, Bay Ridge

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"I like to stretch, stay limber. So I don’t hurt myself when I get up to go lay somewhere else."
- Monkey, Bushwick

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“Honestly, I think I grew up too fast. When I was just a year old I figured out where the red dot on the carpet was coming from. It took away a lot of the wonder most cats experience through their adult lives.”
- Blinky, Williamsburg
(Photo by Rhoades Hughes)
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"So you’re saying you don’t know what cold is?" "No, I’ve heard people talk about it. What is it?" "It’s like, when the temperature drops and you feel, like. Cold. I don’t know…" "Does it only happen where the birds are? Because I’ve never been out there." - Tessa, Greenpoint

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A new Instagram account is giving us a glimpse into the (nine) lives of New York's feline inhabitants. Felines of New York is a playful parody on the Humans of New York format of taking a portrait and pairing it with a short paragraph about the person. DNAinfo recently interviewed the human behind the site, local comedian and writer Jim Tews:

“I like Humans of New York but it’s always very serious — earnest,” Felines of New York’s founder Jim Tews said, “I feel like cats are kind of like that too, serious, judgmental, but in a funny way.” Over the course of a month, Tews, who works as a Production Assistant for MTV Public Affairs Department, has been busy photographing cats from Bushwick, Astoria, Park Slope and Williamsburg.

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Matt Coneybeare

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Matt enjoys exploring the City's with his partner and son. He is an avid marathon runner, and spends most of his time eating, running, and working on cool stuff.

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