A good walk on March 27, 2025, brought me to the Clinton Hill, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. I turned down a short two-block street named Cambridge Place. It is a nice little residential street lined with brick houses and a few homes that stand out. One home that stood out was a blue house with a portico. But what jumped out at me was less the house or portico itself and more what was resting on top of the portico. I saw what I took to be a zebra.

Photograph of a blue slat home on Cambridge Place, a residential street in Clinton Hill. We can see down the block, which is lined with homes, the the camera focuses on a zebra figure, about 3-4 feet long, sitting on the portico of the blue home.

I dare say that is a zebra. I moved to the front of the house for a better angle.

Photograph of a powder blue slat home with a columned portico in Clinton Hill. On the portico is a zebra figure, about three feet long, in the center of the image.

There is quite a bit going on outside this house — including at least two disco balls. But everything took a back-seat to the zebra on the portico (those are words I never thought I would string together). Why is there a zebra there? Who knows? They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Maybe it goes out like a zebra. Zebras may not have much in common with lambs, but they do have hooves.

While I was in the area, I turned around to take a photo of the opposite side of scenic Cambridge Place.

Three tall town houses on Cambridge Place in Clinton Hill, seen from the opposite side of the street. There is a red flowering tree right in the middle of the street in front of the town houses.

I wonder how the people who line in those nice houses enjoy the view of the zebra from their big windows.

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