The following cat tale of the Lower East Side is dedicated to my cat Romeow, who passed away after 16 years of life on July 21, 2014. On June 15, 1904, the General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board the side-wheel passenger boat […]
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1904 and 1908: Holey and Gittel, the Cats with 10 Lives on the Lower East Side
Posted: 25th July 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: 163 East 4th Street, Cat Stories, dumbbell tenement, Lower East Side, New York History, Phillip Minthorne, Rose Kolb, SPCA
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1916: Wang, the King of the Pirate Cats of West 80th Street
Posted: 22nd June 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Cat Stories, Hotel Majestic, John Pamaris, New York History, polio epidemic of 1916, SPCA, Thomas F. Freel
Wang was the leader of a pack of up to 100 stray cats that haunted West 80th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues during the brutal spring and summer of 1916. The press called them the pirate cats.
