Arthur, Iconic Brooklyn Subway Kitten, Returns Home

Image via Arthur the Cat/Facebook

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — One half of the Brooklyn subway-kitten duo that caused a firestorm during the 2013 mayoral primary (and shut down B and Q Train service for hours) is safely back at his Prospect Heights home after a month on the streets, thus realigning the planet to its proper axis.

“We are overcome with joy and relief,” his parents said Thursday on the special Facebook page devoted to tracking down Arthur. “He is a few sizes smaller than when he left home, but our boy is unhurt, eating well, and sleeping off his total exhaustion.”

“August has his brother back after four long weeks,” they said.

Arthur and August, if you’ll remember, interfered in the mayoral election and played with the public’s collective emotion in summer 2013 when they were spotted playing on the B/Q Train tracks at the Church Avenue station in Flatbush.

MTA workers had to shut down trains in both directions during the two-hour rescue, but nobody was really that mad at it, because kittens.

With one exception. Mayoral candidate Joe Lhota told the press at the time that if it had been up to him, he would have let the kittens die.

Fortunately, it was not up to him; and fortunately, Arthur has returned home for a second time to continue living his out his blessed life with August as forever child star and iconic Brooklyn subway kitten.

No word yet on who will receive the $1,000 reward offered up by John Catsimatidis, former Lhota challenger, during the hunt.