…But for the investigating nose of the old sow it would have remained there this day…Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 16, 1888 How many more pots of gold are buried around the same old premises the tourist does not really know, finding pots of gold not being his vocation.–Newtown Register, August 19, 1886 In my last […]
Archive for February, 2019
1842: The Pig That Dug Up a Pot of Gold in Sunnyside, Queens
Posted: 19th February 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Animal StoriesTags: Abraham Schuyler, Bourgon Broucard, New York City History, Sunnyside, Sunnyside Gardens, Sunnyside Rail Yard, Teunis Brinckerhoff
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1940: Strato Lizzie, the Mascot Cat of the TWA Pilots at NYC’s LaGuardia Airport
Posted: 12th February 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Daniel Rapelye, Glenn H. Curtiss, New York City History, North Beach, Strato Lizzie
Once upon a time–around 1638–a farmer named Hendrick Harmensen took his cows from New Amsterdam and re-settled on a point of land along the Bowery Bay, where the East River and Flushing Bay meet on the northern tip of what we now call East Elmhurst, Queens. For several years, Harmensen–also known as Henrick the Boor […]
1912: Captain, the New York City Feline Mascot of the RMS Carpathia
Posted: 3rd February 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Captain Rostron, Carpathia, cats in history, Chelsea Piers, New York City History, Pier 54, Titanic
On April 11, 1912, the RMS Carpathia departed from Chelsea Piers in New York City for Fiume (present-day Rijeka, Croatia), carrying about 740 passengers. The ship never reached its destination on this particular departure. Just after midnight on April 15, 1912, Carpathia‘s wireless operator, Harold Cottam, received some messages from Cape Cod stating they had private traffic for the Titanic. […]
