Seeking a Buyer for a Home Full of Creatures From the Time of Noah
It is an unusual sales pitch, to be sure, but this is no regular listing. The building houses Torah Animal World, a collection of hundreds of taxidermied and otherwise preserved animals that represents the wide range of creatures depicted in the Old Testament. It is famous in the neighborhood, and for some of the thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish children who have come on tours, it is the closest they have ever been to a natural history museum.
Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, the exhibition’s creator, is ready to consolidate the collection with a biblical antiquities museum he runs a few doors away, and with two smaller collections he has in upstate New York and in New Jersey, because the operating costs of running all the locations have gotten too high. So though Torah Animal World will for now leave Brooklyn, he said he hoped the animals would soon migrate to larger quarters there....