“A half-grown cat has adopted the Hotel Lincoln as its permanent home. Cats have always been regarded as a good omen, especially when they come to the door unsolicited. This kitten has a special history. He was born on the site of the present hotel, and spent his life in the debris while the hotel […]
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1928: Abe, the Times Square Tiger Cat Who Refused to Scat From the Hotel Lincoln, II
Posted: 10th June 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Hotel Lincoln, James T. Clyde, Manhattan Hotel, Milford Plaza, New York City History
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1928: Abe, the Times Square Tiger Cat Who Refused to Scat From the Hotel Lincoln, Part I
Posted: 4th June 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Cat Stories, Farm at Bloomingdale, Hotel Lincoln, James T. Clyde, Medcef Eden, New York History
Some studies have shown that where you’re born has a huge impact on how far you’ll go in life. I think the same holds true for cats, especially those who are born in large cities like New York. When Abe’s mother cat gave birth to three kittens in New York City’s Time Square neighborhood in […]
1911: Buster, Topsy, and Yaller, the Police Mascots of NYC’s Lower East Side, Part 1
Posted: 3rd March 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat MascotsTags: Cat Stories, Lower East Side, New York History, NYPD, police cats, police mascots
Part I: Buster and Topsy, the Rival Police Cat Mascots On the evening of December 6, 1911, the men of the old Eldridge Street police precinct in New York City’s Lower East Side moved into the brand-new station house occupied by the men of the old Delancey Street precinct. The large modern building at the corner of Clinton and […]
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
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…
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.
