1871: Rosalie Goodman, the Crazy Cat Lady of New York’s Lower East Side » Division Map2

Division Street, New York, 1894

By 1894, 170 Division Street was a five-story brick tenement surrounded by many other street-front and rear-yard tenement buildings. The courtyard that once served as a cat playground was reduced to a narrow alleyway. New York Public Library, Image ID: 1992474

New York Public Library, Image ID: 1992474