A veteran mother cat with strong maternal instincts saved her five kittens when a two-story frame house caught fire in the Hammels section of Rockaway Beach.
Archive for February, 2020
1928: Mary, the Rockaway Beach Cat of Hammels Who Saved Her 5 Kittens
Posted: 21st February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Beach 81st Street, Cats of Old New York, Hammel Houses, Hammels, Harry Klein, Louis Hammel, Rockaway Beach
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1942: John Pierre Chates, the Cat Who Came to Stapleton, Staten Island With a Passport
Posted: 21st February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Foreign Trade-Zones Act, Joint Distribution Committee, Pierre Mande, Serpa Pinto, Stapleton, Staten Island history
“This is about a refugee ship, 396 refugees from Lisbon. It’s the usual stuff–a baby was born, a man died, a princess born in Flint, Michigan, escaped across Spain and a guy had to get a passport for a cat.”–NY Daily News, 1942
1893: A Carroll Gardens Cat and a Tree Grow in Brooklyn
Posted: 19th February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Brooklyn History, Carroll Gardens, Cats of Old New York, First Place, Willie Morton
On February 18, 1893, a young boy rescued a cat that had been stuck high in a maple tree at the corner of Court Street and First Place in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn.
1902: The Cypress Hills Cat Family That Lived in a Church Organ on Fulton Street
Posted: 17th February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Church of the Transfiguration, George W. Earle, Rev. Stuart Crockett
A seemingly uncanny mystery of the church organ, which had puzzled the organist and boys’ choir of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration for more than a week, was solved when a cat walked out from the organ.
1889: Ko-Ko, the Cat Who Went Missing From the Art Students League of New York
Posted: 14th February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Art Students League of New York, Cats of Old New York, National Academy of Design, New York City History, Sohmen & Co.
In February 1889, it was not uncommon to see a group of young ladies walking up and down East 23rd Street in search of a new good-luck mascot cat for the Art Students League of New York.
