In my last three posts, I wrote about the Army cats of New York City’s Army Building on Whitehall Street, the black cat mascot of the New York Tank Corps, and the Army dogs, cats, and rabbits of Governors Island. This next story for Military Appreciation Month goes to a special naval mascot stationed at Fort Lafayette in the Narrows of New York Harbor.
Archive for the ‘Animal Stories’ Category
1932: Buster, The Navy’s Wolf Mascot of Fort Lafayette, Brooklyn
Posted: 19th May 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Animal StoriesTags: Brooklyn History, Fort Lafayette, Hendrick's Reef, Military Appreciation, Navy History, Verrazano-Narrows
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1899: The Lifesaving Pets of Brooklyn That Saved Three Families on St. Marks Place
Posted: 2nd June 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Animal StoriesTags: Bernard Abrahams, Brooklyn History, Pieter Claesen Wyckoff, Seney Hospital, St. Marks Place
But for an alarm of fire sounded by the three pets in the household of Bernard Abrahams at 90 St. Marks Place in Brooklyn, the members of three families may have lost their lives on August 23, 1899. That day, Mrs. Abrahams was awakened by the barking, screeching, and meowing of the family’s brindle bull […]
1899: The Anti-Cat Club and the Catastrophic Cat Fight at the Windermere Apartments
Posted: 28th April 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Cat StoriesTags: 400 West 57th Street, Henry Goodale, New York City History, The Windermere
In the spring of 1899, 18 years after the Windermere opened at 400 West 57th Street, a war broke out between the cat-loving and cat-hating tenants.
I must warn you that this true story involves gun violence against cats, but it also provides a unique insight into life at the Windermere (one of the city’s oldest apartment buildings) and life in Old New York.
1921: Merry Christmas for a Stray Kitten at the Bideawee Home for Animals
Posted: 24th December 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Animal StoriesTags: 410 East 38th Street, Bide-a-Wee, Christmas Stories, Mrs. Harry Ulysses Kibbe, New York City History
When Mrs. Harry Ulysses Kibbe and several other visionary society women organized the Bide-A-Wee home for animals in 1903, the women relied on paid subscriptions from generous New Yorkers to achieve their mission to care for friendless animals. One of their first fundraisers was a Christmas tea at the Hotel Savoy on Fifth Avenue.
Over the years, a Christmas feast for animals became a tradition at the Bide-a-Wee home. Neighborhood children who had shown kindness during the year by bringing stray cats and dogs to the home were also invited to partake in the festivities.
1909: The Monkey in the Red Bathing Suit at Roche’s Beach in Far Rockaway
Posted: 4th March 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Monkey StoriesTags: 279th Precinct, Edward Roche, Far Rockaway Police, Monkey story, New York City History, Roche's Beach
When Martin Ward, the attendant at Roche’s Beach Pavilion in Far Rockaway, Queens, found a tiny monkey in the bathing house, he brought him to the proprietor of the private beach resort. Edward Roche didn’t know what to do with the monkey, so he called the nearby police station for some help.
