“This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco This ain’t no fooling around This ain’t no Mudd Club, or CBGB I ain’t got time for that now”–Life During Wartime, Talking Heads In its heyday during the 1970s, the famous grungy dive bar at 315 Bowery called CBGB was like a second home to bikers, junkies, prostitutes, and inebriates (the bar […]
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1900: The Parrot Who Cried Murder in Madison Square Park
Posted: 15th February 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Birds and PigeonsTags: 23rd Precinct, Madison Square Park, New York History, Tenderloin District
Help! Murder! Murder! The loud cries for help pierced the early morning stillness in Madison Square Park, nearly startling Policeman Betts out of his shoes as he walked his beat near the Hoffman House Hotel on Broadway and 25th Street.
1853: The English House Sparrows Who Took Up House and Hotel in Manhattan
Posted: 4th October 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Birds and PigeonsTags: Brooklyn Institute, English Sparrows, Green-Wood Cemetery, Henry Spingler, New York History, Nicholas Pike, Union Square
Having heard that the house sparrows of European cities were helping to control insect infestations, a group of prominent New Yorkers, including dry goods merchant Alfred Edwards, imported eight pairs of sparrows from England in 1850.
1915: Lady Eglantine, the Hen That Received a Royal Roost at New York’s Imperial Hotel
Posted: 12th June 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Birds and PigeonsTags: A.A. Christian, Cromwell Childe, Grand Central Palace, Hotel Imperial, Kitty Gordon, Lady Eglantine, New York History, Willard D. Rockefeller
Today, we have ticker-tape parades to honor our favorite sports teams when they win the World Series or the Super Bowl. In 1915, New Yorkers had a welcoming parade to honor a chicken. A white single-comb leghorn hen named Lady Eglantine, to be exact. Mind you, this was not an ordinary hen. This was Addison […]
