Miss Clementine Anderson and Miss Mary J. Anderson were two wealthy, educated, and refined “spinsters” who turned the Poverty Hollow neighborhood around Broome and Pitt Streets on the Lower East Side into a paradise for cats.
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1894: The International Alley Cats of Poverty Hollow at Pitt Street and Broome Street
Posted: 28th February 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat LadiesTags: Cats of Old New York, Delancey Farm, John R. Livingston, Lower East Side, Mount Pitt, New York City History, Pitt Street, Poverty Hollow
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1920: Kelly, the Cat That Sailed on the RMS Aquitania in a Sealed Mail Sack
Posted: 16th January 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Cats of Old New York, Eamon De Valera, Irish Republic, RMS Aquitania, Seafaring cats
On Saturday, December 11, 1920, employees at the New York General Post Office got a big surprise while opening some mail delivered to the United States from England via the steamship RMS Aquitania. Inside one sealed mail sack was a small male kitten.
1933: Betty, the Hobo Cat of Hoboken Who Hitched a Ride on the Lackawanna Limited
Posted: 10th January 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Cats of Old New York, Henry Brynes, Hoboken Terminal, Lackawanna Limited, Phoebe Snow
On January 8, 1933, Betty, chief mouser of the Lackawanna Terminal at Hoboken, NJ, hitched a train ride on the famous Lackawanna Limited to Dover, N.J. It was her first train trip since joining the crew at Hoboken four or five years earlier.
1933: Poor Mary Kane and The Federal Hall Felines of Bryant Park
Posted: 1st January 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Bryant Park, Cats of Old New York, Federal Hall, Grover A. Whalen, New York City History, Walter R. Herrick
In 1932, the George Washington Bicentennial Planning Committee partnered with Sears, Roebuck and Company to construct a wood and plaster replica of Pierre Charles L’Enfants’s Federal Hall at Bryant Park. Few humans took interest in the structure, but it made the perfect home for a family of stray cats and a flock of pigeons.
1922: Minnie, the the RMS Cedric Ship Cat Who Saved Her Christmas Kittens
Posted: 26th December 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Feline MascotsTags: Cats of Old New York, G.R. Metcalfe, New York City History, RMS Cedric, Seafaring cats, White Star Line
On December 26, 1922, Minnie, the ship cat of the RMS Cedric, was honored for saving 36 lives (herself and her three kittens). The rescue took place during a severe storm in the Atlantic Ocean that disrupted Atlantic shipping and damaged or completely destroyed numerous steamships heading toward New York.
