It’s the weekend! Maybe we’ll clock out and head over to Bowery and Kenmare to experience NYC’s first Cat Cafe! Oops, scratch that idea.
For the second day in a row, the line was capped hours before closing time.
Repeat: if you show up now, you will NOT be able to queue up outside the best publicity-generator of all-time (even The New Yorker wrote about it):
Why are they shutting down the line so early, anyway?
Now if only the City of New York would consider a similar policy.
Here’s what was in store for those who made it in time:
Besides the lines, there were two other big news items today in the Cat Cafe universe. Day two began with 21 cats on the premises (up from 16 yesterday). Also:
Yep, there are special cards for VIPs, Very Important Petters. AKA “Frequent Visitor Cards,” for those who’ve made it through that four-hour line umpteen times since yesterday morning. Really, the cards went to the 100 people at the front of the line when it closed yesterday at 7 p.m.
Speaking of VIPs, there’s been at least one celeb sighting at the Cat Cafe:
That’d be Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba.
She looked pretty fetch, as did this girl:
However, it’s not a total Cat Cafe stroke-fest:
And people are worried about standing in line for hours, only to get sent home with their tails between their legs:
Courtesy of Buzzfeed
As for us, we’ve already moved on:
