In the 1940s, author Margaret Wise Brown rented a tiny frame house on East 71st Street. The house, where she wrote her final book, has a fascinating history.
Posts Tagged ‘Upper East Side’
1940s: Crispin’s Crispian, the Terrier of Cobble Court in NYC’s Lenox Hill, Part II
Posted: 25th November 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Dog TailsTags: 1335 York Avenue, Cobble Court, Crispin's Crispian, Louvre Farm, Margaret Glass Healy, Margaret Wise Brown, Mister Dog, Old New York, Upper East Side
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1886: General Muff, the Sophisticated Literary Cat of New York’s Upper East Side
Posted: 28th August 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: 505 Park Avenue, Cat Stories, Henry Clay Overin, Mary Louise Booth, Mineola Garage, New York History, Upper East Side
May it be long before Muff’s gracious personality requires an epitaph, but when that time comes, the following lines will apply to him as fitly as to the one for whom they were written, the poet Whittier’s cat, Bathsheba:“Whereat none said ‘Scat!’Better cat never satOn a mat, or caught a rat,Than this cat. Requiescat!”–Famous Pets […]
