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Published on 5/15/08
Published on 5/15/08
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PSYCHIC: KITTY
Young and pretty with a Cindy Crawford beauty mark on her upper lip, Kitty is abrasive, unlikable and yet, still effectively manipulative. Like the mean friend you had in junior high.
Location: 551 Fulton St, entrance on DeKalb Ave between Flatbush Ave and Bond St, Downtown Brooklyn (718-930-9780)
Cost: $10 dollars for two palms ($5 for one palm)
Ambience: A block into Downtown Brooklyn's Fulton Street Mall, Kitty's shop is the quintessential psychic storefront. She sits in the window with a slightly chipped crystal ball and a curtain that she pulls across when you enter. Her daughter colors with crayons nearby.
Her reading: I have no sex appeal, she tells me while tracing my palm with a perfectly manicured, petal-pink fingernail. Because I was a man in my former life. Men aren’t interested in relationships with me—they get a friend vibe. Apparently there is a shadow on my chakra, my aura is funky and I’m damaged. She points to a part of my palm and says something about scarring on my heart. Interestingly, she is pointing near a scar on my palm from Valentine’s Day 2003. A boy bought me flowers (my first ever!) and I attempted to make a vase out of a Poland Spring bottle and cut the bejesus out of my hand with a pair of scissors.
The spin: When I ask for the $10 palm reading, she tells me that palms are “for the kids.” What I really need is a tarot reading ($45), or better yet, she recommends “The Lovers’ Layout” ($55), which includes tarot and palm. I am clearly unhappy and afraid, she says later, and I need to come back.
How she got into the biz: Her mother and grandmother were fortune-tellers (hence the inherited crystal ball). “But that's enough about me,” she says. Back to my damaged chakra!
Heard about the half-mil swindle? She has not heard the story. “Well,” I tell her. “It’s made me a little wary of psychics.” “You see?!?” she says. “I told you I saw fear.”
Accuracy: 
sherrie
Sun, Apr 13, at 10:33pm
When I read this article, my first thought was how could someone like this take a true gift which not many possess, dedicate their lives to people like me in need of some true approach to healing myself. Kathleen Karter, allowed me to understand what was happenening to my body, mind , and spirit. I never told her about my stomach. Her ability to see me,and what I should seek as an alternate way to improve my health, is worth more than all the money I have spent in search
the right medication!!
James L. Harris, Esq.
Wed, Apr 09, at 08:53am
I write to strongly object to this article. In my experiece with Ms.Karter, she has been a consummate professional, and completely accurate in her readings. I found your article to be most inaccurate and offensive.
Christopher
Wed, Apr 09, at 07:39am
I failed to say that she has also been accurate!
Christopher
Wed, Apr 09, at 07:37am
I find this article very prejudicial, biased, and inaccurate. In my experience, I found Ms. Karter's predictions to be right on point.
Karen
Thu, Feb 28, at 03:32pm
All of these so-called psychics sound like phonies and quacks. You too can learn fortune telling - come on! It's like no one even tried to find any one who had a legitimate session.
I went to a small place in Yonkers called Katie's Cottage to have my tea leaves read by an Irish woman. Katie's is just a regular Irish bar and on certain Sundays they used to offer this. When I went there were probably 20 of us. We were served tea to drink then waited our turn. She told me that I was buying property so I should be careful because there was a problem with the paperwork. I was buying a house at the time and indeed, the value of the house was less than the sale price so the bank rejected the loan. Next she said she saw that someone in my family suffered from circulatory problems and would not be around long. My mom died within two months of seeing her. I had just been through a horrendous break up which she sensed as well. She didn't get anything wrong and the things right were enough to freak me out for life. I don't want to go back because sometimes there are things we are better off not knowing. I will never rest easy about her knowing my mom would die. She had a gift no doubt about it. Most people who advertise and make a living at this seem to be the phoniest. From her face, I would say that this has been as much burden as gift to her.
Robert Lee
Thu, Feb 28, at 11:54am
I parked in front of a psychic's shop/ place of business in Hell's Kitchen a few years ago, and ran inside a building right there for 2 minutes... 2 minutes tops... The so-called psychic was sitting on her stoop with her grand daughter. I got back to my car and someone had popped the lock and forced their way in, to steal my laptop and a bag of dirty laundry. I asked the psychic which they went, because she was sitting on her stoop the whole time. She smiled and said 'She didn't see nuthin." Worst Psychic EVER!
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