Archive for January, 2019

1920: Kelly and Buddy, the Dogs Who Saved Their Family at Brooklyn’s Bath Beach Hotel

Posted: 27th January 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Heroes
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People often ask me how I find my stories. Most of my animal tales come from old newspaper articles followed by a lot of research. For this story set in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, there was also a large dose of coincidence. While I was doing research for my last story about the mascot cat of […]

1910: Nellie, the Beloved Class Cat of Brooklyn’s Van Pelt Manor Grammar School

Posted: 20th January 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Stories
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As I often explain, not all of the cat stories of Old New York that I share with my readers have fairy-tale endings. Of course I prefer to tell happy stories. But I also believe that the kitties that met tragic ends also deserve some attention. This story of Nellie, the classroom mouser of the […]

1902: Jerry, the Good Dog Gone Bad at Brooklyn’s Greenpoint Avenue Police Station

Posted: 5th January 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Mascots, Dog Tails
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In Old New York, almost every police station had a least one canine mascot in addition to one or more feline mousers. Although the cats seemed to get most of the press in those days, every once and a while a story about a police station’s mascot dog would appear in the paper. Oftentimes, the […]