Archive for the ‘Cat Mascots’ Category

“Then all of a sudden I strikes water and opens my eyes. I was flying through the air, and before I comes down I had a fine view of the city.”–Joralemon Street Tunnel worker Richard Creeden, March 27, 1905 The following story is about a little kitten who arrived at the Joralemon Street Tunnel in […]

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.

The Morrisania police station on Washington Avenue at 160th Street was the perfect candidate for a station house cat.

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 […]

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.