Part I: Buster and Topsy, the Rival Police Cat Mascots On the evening of December 6, 1911, the men of the old Eldridge Street police precinct in New York City’s Lower East Side moved into the brand-new station house occupied by the men of the old Delancey Street precinct. The large modern building at the corner of Clinton and […]
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1912: Bum, the Heroic NYC Police Dog of Notorious Mulberry Street
Posted: 28th September 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, FDNY Horses/MascotsTags: 12th Precinct, Bideawee, Charles J. Teare, Cornelius O'Neil, Mulberry Street, New York History, NYPD, Oresto Shillitani, William B. Heaney
When Patrolman Cornelius O’Neil found the yellow dog he named Bum on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, the mangy mutt was half-starved and trailing remnants of a pack of firecrackers by his tail. Patrolman O’Neil decided to rescue the dog and make him the mascot police dog of the newly designated 12th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.
1919 and 1922: Bulb, the Bad-Luck Police Horse of the NYPD Mounted Police
Posted: 14th August 2013 by The Hatching Cat in FDNY Horses/Mascots, Horse TalesTags: 73rd Precinct, Christopher J Tierney, Flatbush Avenue, Frank J Mace, Kings Highway, Mounted Unit, New York History, NYPD, Police horse
NYPD Mounted Police Heroes, Part I Since 1871, the year that the Board of Police established the first official Mounted Police Unit in New York City, more than a dozen mounted patrolmen have been killed in the line of duty in horse-related incidents. Most of these men died after being violently thrown from their horses […]
1908: Max, the Hero Police Dog of Parkville, Brooklyn
Posted: 13th July 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Animal Tales, Brooklyn, Flatbush, George R. Wakefield, New York History, NYPD, Parkville Police, police dogs
Part I of a Parkville Precinct Puppy Tale In 1907 the Police Department of the City of New York, under the command of Police Commissioner Theodore Bingham, sent Inspector George R. Wakefield to Paris and Ghent, Belgium, to look into acquiring some police dogs. Police dogs had been gaining popularity in Europe since their first […]
