Two days after the new Hook and Ladder Company No. 10 of the Brooklyn Fire Department went into service, a new member was added to the roster: a small cat “who wore a fur coat which in color resembled a tortoise shell.”
Archive for the ‘Cat Mascots’ Category
1891: Patsey, The State Street Fire Cat of Brooklyn’s Hook and Ladder Company 10
Posted: 5th October 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, FDNY Horses/MascotsTags: 264 State Street, Brooklyn Fire Department, Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Fire Cats, Ladder Company 110, Schermerhorn Street
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1923: Tramp, the Beloved Police Cat of the Richmond Hill Police Station
Posted: 25th August 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Feline MascotsTags: 102nd Preciinct, 283rd Precinct, Cats of Old New York, police cats, Queens history, Richmond Hill Police, Richmond Hill Queens
In March 1916, the Richmond Hill Police precinct, which covered all of Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Morris Park, and part of Forest Hills, was designated a mounted precinct. That is, every mounted police officer throughout Queens was transferred to the 283rd Precinct in Richmond Hill.
With more horses came more stables — and more vermin. What the Richmond Hill Police needed was a good to mouser to handle all the rats and mice that shared the stables with the horses.
1899: Tom the Terror, the Brooklyn-Born Ship Cat of the United States Navy
Posted: 25th April 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Seafaring CatsTags: Brooklyn Navy Yard, Cats of Old New York, Seafaring cats, Ship cats, USS Anapolis, USS Monongahela, USS Terror
Tom the Terror was reportedly a noted figure in the United States Navy. He came from a long line of naval cats, having been born on the Cob Deck at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1896. All of his siblings and cousins had also honorably served the United States Navy as rat killers and mascots.
