We last left off at the the car stables of the 42nd St. and Grand St. Ferry Railroad, on the east side of Twelfth Ave. It is the night of June 12, 1886, and about a dozen cats are fighting for their lives as a large fire burns their home to the ground…
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1886: The 10 Lives of Hero, the New York City Fire Cat of Chelsea, Part II
Posted: 29th December 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: 165 West 29th Street, Deputy Chief John McCabe, James A. Stewart, John "Bucky" McCabe, Metropolitan Steam Fire Engine Company No. 1, New York City History, Stewart Street
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1886: The 10 Lives of Hero, the New York City Fire Cat of Chelsea, Part I
Posted: 26th December 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Cat Stories, fire cat, Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry, Grand Street Ferry, John Leake Norton, New York History, The Hermitage Farm
Part I of this Old New York cat tale begins in 1825 at the old Hermitage Farm on the west side of Manhattan, where a large horse car depot was built in 1864.
1910: Trent, the Famous Airship Cat That Wowed the New York Crowd at Gimbels
Posted: 4th November 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Men, Cat StoriesTags: Airship America, Gimbel Brothers, Gimbels Department Store, Melvin Vaniman, New York History, Trent, W.G. McAdoo, Walt Wellman
Trent, the tabby cat made famous by an unsuccessful flight across the Atlantic in the airship America, wowed the crowds at Gimbels in New York City.
1913: Duffy MacNab, the Scottish Long-Distance Jumping Cat of New York’s Pier 64
Posted: 7th September 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Duffy MacNab, Famous ship cats, Francis Henry Wadsworth, New York History, Pier 64, TSS Caledonia
On March 25, 1905, Caledonia made her maiden voyage from Glasgow, Scotland, to New York and back. In addition to the passengers and crew, on board was a young black cat that the crew named Duffy MacNab — or The MacNab, for short.
1888: Union Square Jim, the Mascot Cat of New York’s Union Square Theatre, II
Posted: 21st August 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: B.F. Keith, Cat Stories, James M. Hill, Michael Sweeney, Morton House, New York History, Old New York, Union Square Theatre
Union Square Jim was a large, blue-eyed, orange tabby mascot of the old Union Square Theatre in New York City. Jim was born in the theater sometime around 1886, a year after James Hill took over as manager of the theater.
