![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicOFz-rfEf7sQ98Mim495PAM4MHW7jMHqBytoGqOfXCbnDsU4vGr_5tknuMkOfFEE2DNUD9drObHqCM-I8-kXR6S9v3t2_eWvfeVt-KjtzSKeJwwP8Nw2brwbGmInawemrliII/s400/IMG_1630.jpg)
I encountered this critter near the southern end of Battery Park City, so I can't help but wonder if it's a descendent of the one I met back in the 1970s and wrote about here (somehow, my typo on "immigrant" made it through the Times's vaunted copy editing).
Anyway, this one seemed more self-sufficient. Have supply-side economic policies had a salutary effect on the squirrel community?