For Brooklyn residents, it was no ordinary Sunday morning. In the Prospect Park pond, a five-foot alligator was calmly swimming at the water’s edge near Duck Island in the southeastern section of the park.
The reptile, a native of warmer climates, was lethargic, perhaps a victim of a cold snap, and had to be pulled from the water by Parks Department workers.
“It’s totally unexpected,” said Joseph Puleo, vice president of District Council 37, which represents the city park workers who ended up pulling the gator out of the water.
“We were notified by someone who saw it,” Puleo told The Post. “It wasn’t moving really at all.”
The alligator was loaded into a cage and transported to the Animal Care Centers’ Brooklyn office in eastern New York for medical evaluation, where he was given the name Godzilla.
“We are grateful to our park patrol and city park rangers who sprang into action to capture and transport the alligator,” said Meghan Lalor, spokeswoman for the Parks Department. “Fortunately, no one was injured and the animal is being cared for.
This is not the first time that an alligator has been found in that lake. In July 2018 a similar incident occurred.
