{"id":112999,"date":"2026-01-26T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112999\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:47:09","slug":"nycs-famous-turkey-astoria-explores-snowy-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112999\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s Famous Turkey, Astoria, Explores Snowy Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A beloved wild turkey in New York City named Astoria was seen <a href=\"https:\/\/newswire.storyful.com\/story\/336632\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:exploring the snowy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">exploring the snowy<\/a> streets around Battery Park as a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSNewYorkNY\/status\/2015492585637269847\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:winter storm;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">winter storm<\/a> blanketed the five boroughs on Sunday, January 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This video was captured by Stella Hamilton, who said the city\u2019s \u201cbrave Turkey Princess Astoria spent the whole day\u201d around Manhattan\u2019s State Street near the South Ferry subway station but decided to walk back to the park around 4 pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cFinally at 5:13 pm, Astoria flew up to her tree east of the carousel,\u201d Hamilton wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Astoria <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/10\/nyregion\/wild-turkey-manhattan.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:rose to fame;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">rose to fame<\/a> after she first appeared in Queens in 2024. Credit: Stella Hamilton via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A beloved wild turkey in New York City named Astoria was seen exploring the snowy streets around Battery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3814,50379,9,24,56,63,65,64,50378,50380],"class_list":["post-112999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-astoria","tag-battery-park","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-stella-hamilton","tag-turkey-princess-astoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}