Hell’s Kitchen and New York at large are full of one-of-a-kind characters — and last month, the neighborhood lost one of its indisputably unique West Siders: Worldwide Plaza resident and the “world’s oldest cougar” Hattie Wiener, who passed away at age 88 on June 21. 


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