Photos: 21 Of Our Newest Favorite Bodega Cats

Photo of King of a Greenwich Village bodega (we're guessing) by Ralph Bonheim — Gothamist

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Published Jun 5, 2012

Modified Jun 29, 2012

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Our call for photos of the city's noblest guardians of commerce was heeded, and we present you with 21 more of only the best, cutest, sneakiest bodega cats New York City has to offer. Feel free to keep sending those bodega cat snapshots in to [email protected], hashtagging them #Gothamist and #BodegaCat on Instagram, or tagging them "Gothamist" and "Bodega Cat" on Flickr. But make sure they are CHOICE.

We get hundreds of submission, and the judge's panel is ruthless (it features many former famous bodega cats, like Scraps McFanta Napper and Chi Chi The Ratslayer).