Downtown Express has been following the five kittens rescued from the Goldman Sachs construction site since August, but the story heated up last Thursday as several blogs and other publications started covering it.
New York Magazine, the Financial Times and Gawker all posted links to Downtown Express’ articles describing how the kittens born on the construction site found adoptive homes after a local couple rescued them. The blogs focused on a Downtown Express editorial (“Let us apologize for Goldman Sachs,” Oct. 23 – 29, 2009), which criticized Goldman on several fronts, including the kittens.
Since the editorial was published, all of the kittens have been adopted (some with Goldman’s help and some without it), as the Express reported two weeks ago. And Patti Brotman, who rescued the kittens with her husband Rich, said last Thursday that Goldman has now paid the kittens’ medical expenses. She told us she had received media inquiries from London, Canada and from local blogs.
Earlier this fall, after Goldman made the promises but before the adoptions and money fell into place, the Brotmans told Downtown Express that Goldman was not returning their phone calls and they were worried that the commitments had fallen through.
New York Magazine’s Daily Intel column, in a Thursday post on the Goldman kittens, quoted a Goldman spokesperson saying the Downtown Express reported the story inaccurately but did not give specifics. Goldman had not previously complained of inaccuracies to Downtown Express and did not return a call for comment.
