It’s total panda-monium!
A life-sized stuffed panda bear is perched in a tree, a dozen feet up, in Park Slope and neighbors are bewildered by how it got there.
The giant inanimate leaf-muncher has been stuck in the branches of the tree on 14th Street near Eighth Avenue for nearly two years without the city removing it, residents said.
“It was in our trash and then all of a sudden it was in our tree,” said Kaycie Cobb, who lives next to the snuggly spectacle.
“Honestly, I thought it would have just disappeared. Now, I’m wondering how long it’s going to be up there — how we’re going to get it out of here.”
She added, “A lot of people come and look at it, take pictures. It’s gotten kind of famous.”
The stuffed critter has become the unofficial mascot of the block. It can be spotted from the playground of neighboring PS 107, where kids aptly named it “Panda.”
“He’s well-loved by the kids,” said Carrie Harvey, 46, a mother of two elementary school boys. “It has become a fixture at the school.”
A fifth grader even did a brilliant journalism assignment with the headline, “Large Stuffed Panda Stuck in Tree.”
But at least one 10-year-old boy said he’s merely grinning and bearing it.
“I’ve gotten used to it but it’s sort of a disturbance. It’s litter,” said Augie Harvey, a fifth-grader at PS 107. “I mean, someone just left it there.”
The city plans to send someone to investigate and possibly “rescue” the panda from the tree, a Parks Department spokeswoman said.
The stuffed animal sighting is the latest installment of The Post’s wacky-things-in-trees coverage. It comes a day after a couch was spotted, 30 feet high, in an Upper West Side tree. It has since been removed, officials said.


