This is a tragic story that involves injury and cruelty and death–both human and feline. But it is an important story to tell, because it is part of our history. In fact, it is a major part of the ASPCA’s 150-year history in New York.
Archive for the ‘Animal Stories’ Category
1903: The Poor Stray Cats That Sparked an Explosion at the SPCA Shelter
Posted: 14th November 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Cat StoriesTags: ASPCA, Cats of Old New York, Henry Bergh, New York City History
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1903: Thomas, the Feline Ghost of New York City’s Ansonia Hotel on Broadway
Posted: 15th August 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Cat StoriesTags: Ansonia Hotel, Cats of Old New York, Chevilly, John Broome, New York City History, William Earle Dodge Stokes
Much has been written about New York City’s Ansonia Hotel and its rooftop farm, but I bet very few people know that a cat named Thomas once lived on the 16th floor and spent a few weeks spooking the hotel’s residents.
1905: The Elephants That Escaped the Ruhe Wild Animal Farm in Woodside, Queens
Posted: 1st March 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Elephant TalesTags: Bernard Ruhe, Calvary Cemetery, Louis Ruhe, New York City History, Ruhe Wild Animal Farm, Woodside
Woodside has been uncomfortable ever since the wild animal farm, as it is known locally, was opened about a year ago. Every woman in the place has predicted that the animals would escape some dark, cold night and wipe out the town, devouring buildings and inhabitants. These predictions came near becoming true on Monday night… […]
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
…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 […]
1892: The Fox Farm House at Fox’s Corner, Where Foxes Ran in Foxhurst, Bronx
Posted: 5th December 2018 by The Hatching Cat in Animal StoriesTags: Bronx History, Charlotte Leggett, Fox's Corners, Foxhurst, Hunt Inn, New York City History, Oliver De Lancey, Richard March Hoe, West Farms, William W. Fox
“For almost a generation there was no more secluded or more beautiful section than the vicinity of “Fox Corners.”—New York Daily Tribune, February 28, 1909 (Fox Corners was in Foxhurst, Bronx) In my last post, I wrote about Swain’s performing rats and cats, which once appeared at the old Loew’s Boulevard Theatre near Fox’s Corners […]
