The Secret Lives of NY City Beekeepers 
The New Republic, 3/11/2009
http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2009/03/secret-lives-of-ny-city-beekeepers.html

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in mid-February, a small group of New
Yorkers—beekeepers, environmentalists, and a handful of honey
aficionados—huddled together in an empty SoHo office building for a
local honey-tasting session. If this had been Portland or San Francisco,
it wouldn't have been a notable event—just a harmless gathering of
honey connoisseurs. But in New York, bees are classified under section
161.01 of the health code as "wild animals," and are just as illegal to
own in the city as lions, cougars, alligators, or polar bears. So a
local honey-tasting event is, in many ways, an act of political
defiance… 

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