See also the Collar, the Fire, and the Stork.

The NYPD’s Emergency Service officers will tell you that they’ve seen it all. But what they viewed inside a cluttered fifth-floor apartment in the Drew Hamilton Houses at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. and 141st St. on Oct. 4 was one for the books. A report of loud jungle roars brought officers from four ESU trucks to the location. After cutting a hole in the apartment door, they confirmed that a six-foot long, 425-pound Bengal tiger was prowling the premises.

From a flat on the building’s fourth floor, the officers eased a pole-mounted video camera up to a window to keep track of the beast. Then Truck 2 Police Officer Martin Duffy neatly performed a delicate assignment. Armed with a tranquilizer dart-gun — plus an M4 machine gun loaded with live ammunition — he took a careful five minutes to rappel down from the seventh floor and execute what the New York Times described as a “daring, and creative, bit of sharpshooting.”

As Duffy placed his feet on the fifth-floor windowsill, the tiger let out a blood-curdling roar and lunged at the barred window, cracking the glass. The cop fired, striking the animal in the rump, provoking another bellow from the big carnivore.

“I was nervous,” said Duffy. “I’m not gonna lie.”

More than an hour later, the cops packed the secured and sedated predator into a truck and ultimately into the custody of animal care and control officials. The cat’s name is Ming, it was learned later, and now roams a wildlife refuge in Ohio.

And, oh yes, there was a four-foot alligator in the apartment as well. The reptile doesn’t appear to have had a name and he, too, has been relocated to a more appropriate habitat.

The New York City Housing Authority has evicted the animal lover who kept this menagerie and he is staying with relatives. Humans they were, at last report.

(l-r) Surveillance camera is raised to the tiger's window; Duffy begins the slow rappel down; the animal is strapped to a gurney; the size of the feline's canines impress the officer; the tiger is transported by truck.