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Meet the NYC shop cat working for over a decade — one of dozens of feline workers profiled in new book​

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This employee has earned her stripes.

Eleven-year-old cat Georgie has been working diligently at Lower East Side vegan shoe store MooShoes for nearly a decade, according to store owner Erika Kubersky — who rescued the tabby from Big Apple streets and has since tasked her with greeting and lap-warming customers.

The rotund orange-and-white staffer also serves as the sole surviving feline from a newly expanded book documenting the lives of hardworking kitties around New York City.

Eleven-year-old Georgie embraces “Shop Cats of New York” author Tamar Arslanian at MooShoes in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
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“Shop Cats of New York” features dozens of cats like Georgie — now adopted into storefronts as mouse catchers, fluffy advertisements or in-house therapists — working at bookstores, pharmacies, record shops, art studios, vet centers and even fire stations.

“If a customer comes in, she’ll decide to lap-warm people,” Kubersky told The Post of Georgie’s daily responsibilities, adding neighbors will often stop inside just to say hello to the shoe store mascot.