No, Really.

Okay.
No one will believe me, but this is absolutely a true anecdote:

My friend Todd and I were walking from the Lower East Side to West 4th Street the other night, and when we approached 7th Ave, we saw a cavalcade of emergency vehicles blocking the street and an army of cops- some of them in riot gear, with body armor and the works. They'd blocked off the Christopher station of the 1/9, and there was a big crowd of people around. Todd and I kind of sidled into the crowd to see what was going on, and a woman next to us tapped a cop on the shoulder and asked what was going on. "Alligator.", he said. "No, really.", the woman said. "Alligator in the subway.", the cop said again.

What's next? The proverbial 300 lb goldfish in the sewer?

Only in New York, kids.