Archive for March, 2024

1939: Tommy Tucker, the Riverside Drive Cat Who (Almost) Inherited $5,000

Posted: 23rd March 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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When Tommy Tucker’s owner died in 1939, the former street cat who had been living in luxury in a beautiful old house on Riverside Drive almost inherited a fortune. (He made out pretty good in the end.)

A great cat story with some interesting history about the Paterno Castle in Washington Heights.

1910: Lester, the Police Horse Who Patronized the Mother Goose Tea Room

Posted: 16th March 2024 by The Hatching Cat in FDNY Horses/Mascots
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Every day, Lester the NYPD police horse worked with his two-legged partner on Fifth Avenue near 35th Street. And every day at 5 p.m., he would visit the Mother Goose Tea Room at 13 East 35th Street. He would stick his nose over the hedge and wait for a few lumps of sugar.

1905: The Wealthy Miser Who Hoarded Money and Cats in a Midtown Tenement

Posted: 8th March 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cows and Cattle Stories
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This story features a wealthy miser who lived frugally despite her wealth, about a dozen cats that lived with her in a dingy apartment, an ottoman stuffed with cash, and a few cows that made the Goelet family one of the richest landowners in midtown Manhattan in the 19th and early 20th century.