Greenwich Village in the early 1900s was home to many notable cats that made the headline news. There were the Bohemian cats led by Crazy Cat, who reigned supreme around Sheridan Square during the 1910s. And there were the more refined gentlemen cats like Old Timer, Mr. White, and Jonathan, who occupied the feline throne on Greenwich Avenue in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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1934: Old Timer, Mr. White, and Jonathan, the Gentlemen Cats of Greenwich Avenue
Posted: 7th March 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Cats of Old New York, Emily Burmeister, Greenwich Avenue, Monument Lane, New York City History, Road to the Obelisk
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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
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.
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.
