“Donnie Brasco: [Lefty tends to the pigeon coops on the roof of his building. Donnie's alongside him] Did you know there used to be falcons in New York?
Lefty: They got everything in this fucking city.
Donnie Brasco: Peregrine falcons. They lived across the river.
Lefty: In Queens?
Donnie Brasco: In the Palisades.
Lefty: The Palisades is in Jersey, Donnie.
Donnie Brasco: I'm saying that's why there's so many pigeons now. The falcons used to hunt 'em and kill 'em off.
Lefty: I love these fuckin' pigeons. I'd die before I'd let anybody touch these pigeons.
Donnie Brasco: These falcons could read a newspaper from a mile up.
Lefty: A bird could read a newspaper?
Donnie Brasco: I'm saying their eyesight.”
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