On March 25, 1890, Jefferson Market Police Court Justice White committed Mrs. Jane Duncan to the care of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction “for examination as to her sanity.” The sentencing stemmed from charges from her landlord, Dr. Thomas C. Knox, who feared that Mrs. Duncan had too many cats in her apartment at 30 Bedford Street.
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1890: The Cat Lady of Bedford Street and Her 29 Feline Companions
Posted: 25th March 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat LadiesTags: Cats of Old New York, Crazy Cat Lady, Herring Farm, Jane Duncan, Jefferson Market Court, New York City History, William W. Duncan
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1904: Red Cross, the Spring Kitten of Bellevue Hospital
Posted: 20th March 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Bellevue Hospital, Cats in New York History, Cats of Old New York, New York City History
Red Cross was a pure white kitten who was born at Bellevue Hospital in 1904, All the doctors adored her, and she had full run of the hospital grounds–including one very tall tree.
1928: Mary, the Rockaway Beach Cat of Hammels Who Saved Her 5 Kittens
Posted: 21st February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Beach 81st Street, Cats of Old New York, Hammel Houses, Hammels, Harry Klein, Louis Hammel, Rockaway Beach
A veteran mother cat with strong maternal instincts saved her five kittens when a two-story frame house caught fire in the Hammels section of Rockaway Beach.
1942: John Pierre Chates, the Cat Who Came to Stapleton, Staten Island With a Passport
Posted: 21st February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Foreign Trade-Zones Act, Joint Distribution Committee, Pierre Mande, Serpa Pinto, Stapleton, Staten Island history
“This is about a refugee ship, 396 refugees from Lisbon. It’s the usual stuff–a baby was born, a man died, a princess born in Flint, Michigan, escaped across Spain and a guy had to get a passport for a cat.”–NY Daily News, 1942
1893: A Carroll Gardens Cat and a Tree Grow in Brooklyn
Posted: 19th February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Brooklyn History, Carroll Gardens, Cats of Old New York, First Place, Willie Morton
On February 18, 1893, a young boy rescued a cat that had been stuck high in a maple tree at the corner of Court Street and First Place in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn.
