She advised him that a good deed erases a bad one, and that on Christmas Eve, good deeds counted for extra. The Pigeon Lady then explained to Kevin her past about how she once had a career and a fiancée, but was then dumped, and has been afraid to talk to, or trust anyone since. Kevin admitted that he could relate to this, feeling as though he was his household's "pigeon" since he was the youngest. When Kevin apologized, she explained that she was like the birds she cared for in that people would ignore her and wish she was not there.
When Kevin asked her if she brought her friends up to the loft, she told him she did not have many friends. There, she told Kevin about having heard the world's great music from the loft: Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and Luciano Pavoratti. After she give him some birdseed and had him throw in in the air, to attract the pigeons, they went to a concert in a loft above Carnegie Hall and heard a performance of " Oh, Come All Ye Faithful." She freed him, and Kevin started to run, but stopped and apologized for being scared of her. He attempted to run from her, but got his foot caught. Later, the two encountered each other a second time. One day, she encountered Kevin McCallister Kevin quietly exclaimed "Sick!" and ran away from her, scared. Over the years, she became homeless and would tend to the pigeons in Central Park.
As a result, she refused to fall in love again, and stopped trusting others. BiographyĪt some point in time, the woman had a job, a family, and was in love with a man who eventually fell out of love with her. They prefer I wasn't in their city." Īn unnamed woman, a so-called " Pigeon Lady", was homeless in New York City, where she often spent her time with pigeons in Central Park.