In 1917, the president of the Bowling Green Neighborhood Association (BGNA) came up with a plan to help control the feral cat population in Manhattan’s Lower West Side. Dr. Miner C. Hill, a pediatrician in charge of the nonprofit association’s baby clinic, believed that the stray cats were responsible for spreading diseases to the poor […]
Archive for May, 2017
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 TailsTags: Bennett Farm, Father Drumgoole, Father James Dougherty, Mount Loretto, New York History, Staten Island history, Tim Leahy
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 […]
1896: Tige, the Newfoundland of the Mount Loretto Orphanage for Boys in Staten Island, Part I
Posted: 8th May 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: 400 East 48th Street, Father John Christopher Drumgoole, Julia Kelley, Mission of the Immaculate Virgin, Mount Loretto, New York History, Tim Leahy
Tim Leahy was only seven years old when his father died and his mother ran away and left him on his own. With no other living relatives in his homeland of Ireland, he was put on a ship and sent to live with a great aunt in New York City. Great Aunt Julia Kelley was […]
