Posts Tagged ‘Staten Island history’

1884: Tabby, the Staten Island Cat of Eltingville Set Out to Sea for 9 Days

Posted: 20th August 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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Although she lived through three storms while at sea in a small rowboat, Tabby the cat never lost even one of her nine lives during her nine days in the Sandy Hook Bay.

1942: John Pierre Chates, the Cat Who Came to Stapleton, Staten Island With a Passport

Posted: 21st February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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“This is about a refugee ship, 396 refugees from Lisbon. It’s the usual stuff–a baby was born, a man died, a princess born in Flint, Michigan, escaped across Spain and a guy had to get a passport for a cat.”–NY Daily News, 1942

1881: The Jail Cats of Edward Reinhardt, the Silver Lake Murderer Hanged on Staten Island

Posted: 15th January 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories
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On the night before he was hung for the murder of one of his two wives, Edward Reinhardt spent time smoking cigars and petting the three cats that lived with him in his prison cell at the Richmond County Jail.

1896: Tige, the Newfoundland of Mount Loretto Orphanage for Boys in Staten Island, Part II

Posted: 13th May 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails
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Tim and Tige lived and played on East 48th Street near First Avenue, pictured here in 1915. This neighborhood was razed to make way for the United Nations Plaza in 1948. NYPL Digital Collections When we left Part I of this Old New York dog tale, little Tim Leahy had just been separated from his […]

1887: Punch and Chico, the Photogenic Dogs of Alice Austen That Lived Where History Was Made in Staten Island, Part I

Posted: 10th February 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails
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George Washington. Ben Franklin. General William Howe. Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt. These are just a few of the prominent men in history who visited the 17th-century farmhouse on the banks of The Narrows in Rosebank, Staten Island, where photographer Alice Austen made history in the late 19th century. Today, this old farmhouse where Alice lived with her family […]

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