It’s so expensive to live on the Upper West Side, even a hawk is willing to check out a fifth-floor walkup!
Joe Moderski, 46, got the shock of his life yesterday when a hawk swooped at him — in the hallway outside his top-floor apartment at 103 W. 80th St.
“I freaked out,” the bond trader told The Post. “It’s claws were huge.”
Moderski had just returned from his Jersey beach house at 3 p.m., when the raptor appeared.
“I had noticed that the hallway was filled with feathers, and I thought maybe someone had moved or I had missed out on a great pillow fight,” he said.
Then the hawk flew at him, missing his face by inches. “I turned around and ran,” he said.
For the next half-hour, police to tried to coax the carnivore out with breadcrumbs. It didn’t work.
At 3:45 p.m., two Emergency Service cops caught it and took it to the city’s Animal Care and Control center.