Move over, Wolf of Wall Street – the Falcon of Wall Street has landed.
A wayward falcon on Wednesday morning swooped into the Financial District, where it fowled up police efforts to cage it by flying away, witnesses said.
“It looked fierce,” said witness Kyle B., 27, who runs a taco cart on Wall Street steps away from where the bird wound up.
“Some guy came by with a dog and said, ‘Hey, did you hear about a hawk walking down Maiden Lane?’ I turned around and there it was against the glass of the building,” Kyle said.
The NYPD received a 911 call at about 7:49 a.m. regarding a “chicken hawk” under a street sign outside of 101 Wall St., said police, adding that they received a request to cage the bird.
The department’s elite Emergency Services Unit was then called to the scene.
A specialist with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology identified the bird’s species as a young peregrine falcon, a spokesman told The Post.
“Four cops started circling the hawk,” Kyle said. “Then another car of men in vests and gloves came…a third car came around and they roped off the area with yellow tape.”
Kyle added: “People thought someone jumped. It was that dramatic.”
When the officers moved in on the bird, it simply flew away, according to witnesses.
“Very anti-climactic,” Kyle said of the outcome of the situation.
Ricardo Gibbons, a doorman at 101 Wall St,, said that when he spotted the bird, he quickly called 311 and a dispatcher gave him the number to animal control, which was not open, he said.
“It was just sitting there…it wasn’t making any sounds,” Gibbons recalled of the bird. “The police came and tried to put it in a cage, but then it just flew off towards the bridge.”
“People were surprised because they thought it was sick or injured and then out of the blue it flies off,” he said, adding that it was a “pleasure” to catch a glimpse of the bird.
Another witness, David Kalinsack, 43, saw the animal when he was walking to work.
“It was an absolutely beautiful bird…it was huge. Gigantic,” he said. “It had a band around its leg so someone was tracking it.”
Dalia Abdullah, who runs a coffee cart nearby, said the falcon appeared “tired and hungry” so she tried to feed the animal four strips of bacon.
“I think he ate it, because then he was able to fly away,” Abdullah said. “Maybe he’s looking for his mom.”