From the day he was born, Homicide was destined to be a police cat. No one knows where he came from, or if he ever attended Police College, but the flat-footed feline knew exactly what it meant to be on the job in New York City.
Archive for the ‘Cat Mascots’ Category
1934: Arson and Homicide, the New York Cats on the Job at Police Headquarters
Posted: 22nd September 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Stories, Feline MascotsTags: 240 Centre Street, 300 Mulberry Street, Cat Stories, Centre Market, New York History, New York Police Headquaters, NYPD, police cat
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1904–1922: Pete, Bill, and Tammy, the Mousers on the Job in Morrisania
Posted: 30th August 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Lieutenant Peter Brady, Morrisania, Morrisania Police, New York History, NYPD history, police mascots
The Morrisania police station on Washington Avenue at 160th Street was the perfect candidate for a station house cat.
1902 and 1932: Billy and Tommy, the Goat and Cat Mascots of The Lambs
Posted: 21st August 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Animal Tales, Daniel Frohman, Hilda Spong, Joe Laurie Jr., New York History, New York Theater, The Lambs, Tommy Lamb
A while back, I wrote about Sir Oliver, a parrot that performed on Broadway in the early 1900s and served as mascot for The Lambs, America’s first professional theatrical club. Right after I posted the story, New York actor and Lambs’ Shepherd (president) Marc Baron contacted me to tell me that The Lambs also had […]
1907: Minnie, the Thanksgiving Cat of the Essex Market Police Court Prison
Posted: 15th November 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Stories, Essex Market Place, Essex Market Police Court, Lower East Side, Minnie Maddern Fiske, New York History, Thanksgiving
On Thanksgiving Day in 1907, all of the prisoners and felines at Essex Market received a big chicken dinner served by veteran matron, Mrs. R.R. Fitzgerald.
1928: The Three Kitten Mascots of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Factory in Tribeca
Posted: 26th October 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat MenTags: Cat Stories, Engine Company 33, FDNY history, kittens rescued, Kraft, New York History, North Moore Street, Old New York, Rescue 1
During the 1800s and early 1900s, stories about animal mascots in New York City and other metropolitan areas appeared in the news almost on a weekly basis. The following tale about the mascots of the Kraft-Phenix cheese factory was rather unique, in that it was not about a fire, police, or ship mascot.
