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Breeding Brooklyn Pigeons

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Flying the coop in Canarsie. Read the full description.

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Like his father before him, Michael Scott breeds "primo" pigeons, trained athletes, in his native Brooklyn. One of his coops is in Canarsie, on top of his grandmother?s house. Produced originally for SALT.

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