One of the notorious kittens who shut down subway service for hours in 2013 when they wandered onto the Brooklyn tracks is back on the run.
Arthur, who was adopted by a family in Prospect Heights after causing the underground chaos with another cat, August, jumped out a window left open by a sitter on Nov. 20 and has not come back home.
Katherine Lynn and her husband, Keith, have been frantically searching the neighborhood, putting flyers around the neighborhood and setting traps filled with his favorite food and clothes that smell like his parents and August.
August, who has been with his brother at least since the pair were spotted frolicking on the B and Q line tracks three summers ago, is taking Arthur’s absence especially hard, said his adopted cat mother.
“He is so bonded to his brother,” Lynn said of August. “He needs comfort, and he’s trying to make contact by meowing out the window. We really want to reunite them.”
In August 2013, the kitties forced the MTA to stop Q and B trains for more than two hours until they could be rescued from the tracks. Then-mayoral candidate Joe Lhota infuriated cat-lovers across the city when he said he wouldn’t have stopped the trains.
Lynn asked anyone who thinks they have seen Arthur to call her at 646-789-5626. She also has a Facebook page for the search.
The family is offering a cash reward, but they declined to say how much.