Pigeon Kings of Brooklyn

On Brooklyn rooftops, rival pigeon keepers fly huge flocks and try to lure each other's birds away in a decades-old street sport.

A colourful look at a hidden New York rooftop rivalry that's about pride, poetry and devotion.

Look up from the busy streets of New York City, and you might glimpse a flock of purebred pigeons swooping in circles around an abandoned tenement building in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Their aerial acrobatics are guided by the

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