Help Us Find the Zebra

A beloved Zebra who lived on the traffic island at Greenacres Avenue and Colvin Road is missing again.

The zebra has been a neighborhood favorite since Pearl Stark of 47 Greenacres Avenue donated the large ceramic sculpture of a black and white striped zebra to adorn the newly planted traffic island across the street from her home in the summer of 2011. Stark has lived on Greenacres Avenue since 1965 and left the zebra as a parting gift to the neighborhood when she moved out in 2011. She wished to thank the neighborhood gardeners for providing a lovely vista from her front porch.

The zebra was placed in a corner of the triangular island on Saturday July 23, 2011. However, just days afterwards the zebra was stolen, but ultimately recovered.

Now 12 years later, the zebra along with two Buddha statues that were also donated to the garden are gone.

Neighbors suspect the zebra was stolen in November 2022 before he usually goes into hibernation in someone’s home for the winter. Thinking the zebra was in storage, no one suspected he had been stolen at the time. But now it’s clear that the zebra is gone…. along with the two buddhas.
Do you know anything about the whereabouts of the zebra? If so, please contact Deb Pekarek at (914) 723-6171 or email Deb at [email protected] or email us at [email protected].

Help us locate this neighborhood treasure.