After moving to New Jersey with his human family, Tabby the cat traveled 26 miles to return to the German butcher shop he loved so much in Brooklyn,
A sweet cat tale plus some interesting history about the Windsor Terrace neighborhood of Brooklyn..
Archive for the ‘Cat Stories’ Category
1902: Tabby Burgmeir, the Butcher’s Cat of Windsor Terrace Who Came Back
Posted: 8th April 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Anna M. Ferris, Brooklyn History, Cat Museum of NYC, Garrett L. Martense, Jennie V. Wilbur, Louis Burgmeier, Windsor Terrace
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1939: Tommy Tucker, the Riverside Drive Cat Who (Almost) Inherited $5,000
Posted: 23rd March 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Castle Village, Cats of Old New York, Charles Paterno, Henry L. Hirscher, Julius Baier, Louise Baier, Riverside Drive, Victor Baier
When Tommy Tucker’s owner died in 1939, the former street cat who had been living in luxury in a beautiful old house on Riverside Drive almost inherited a fortune. (He made out pretty good in the end.)
A great cat story with some interesting history about the Paterno Castle in Washington Heights.
1905: The Wealthy Miser Who Hoarded Money and Cats in a Midtown Tenement
Posted: 8th March 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cows and Cattle StoriesTags: Almy Townsend, Cats of Old New York, Maria Kull, New York City History, Peter Goelet, Robert Goelet, William Kull
This story features a wealthy miser who lived frugally despite her wealth, about a dozen cats that lived with her in a dingy apartment, an ottoman stuffed with cash, and a few cows that made the Goelet family one of the richest landowners in midtown Manhattan in the 19th and early 20th century.
1886: The Cat Farm at “The Ship” on NYC’s Hamilton Street
Posted: 30th November 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Cats of Old New York, Crazy Cat Lady, Hamilton Street, Jacob Riis, Knickerbocker Village, NYC History
Mary Miner was a proverbial crazy cat lady who lived with about 50 cats in a small, dingy room on Hamilton Street. The room was one of many in a ramshackle tenement called The Ship, a building on the Lower East Side with an interesting history dating back to the 1700s.
New Cats in Hats: Mister Meyer, the Milk Steward of the S.S. President Harding
Posted: 21st November 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in HatsTags: Cats With Jobs, S.S. President Harding, Ship cats
I have added a new story to my Cats in Hats page. This one is about a cat who worked as a milk steward on the passenger ship S.S. President Harding, which sailed from New York to Germany in the 1920s.
