The Friendly Neighborhood Russian Spies
Is a mysterious building in the Bronx the secret lair of Boris and Natasha?
Richard Zablauskas’s cat was stuck in a tree—a tree that belonged to his neighbors, who he believed were Russian spies.
It was the early ’90s, and the 50-year-old resident of Riverdale—an upscale part of the Bronx in New York City—went to get some help. His cat, Frizbee, was perched on a limb hanging over Russia’s residency for the Permanent Mission to the United Nations—a drab, Soviet-style building surrounded by a large fence, a metal wall and coils of barbed wire.
Zablauskas asked the guards at the residency to let him in—and they refused. But when he returned with a ladder, they relented,
