When a fire broke out on Halloween at 1632-1640 Pitkin Avenue in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, a mama cat was not about to let the firemen ignore her box of kittens.
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1921: The Pitkin Avenue Fire Cat and Her Lucky Halloween Kittens
Posted: 31st October 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Brooklyn History, Brownsville, Cats of Old New York, Engine Company 233, John R. Pitkin, New York City History, Pitkin Avenue
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1907: The Bedford Cats of Brooklyn Who Swam in Milk on Bergen Street, Part II
Posted: 27th October 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Bedford Corners, Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Lefferts, New York City History
When a Bergen Street trolley struck a horse-drawn milk wagon near the corner of New York Avenue in 1907, street cats and parlor cats came from every direction to wade and wallow in the spilled milk.
1907: The Bedford, Brooklyn Cats Who Swam in Milk on Bergen Street, Part I
Posted: 20th October 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Bedford Corners, Bergen Street, Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Lefferts, New York City History
“Midnight prowlers and back-fence howlers enjoyed a lacteal orgy yesterday morning at the expense of William Evans, 250 Herkimer Street, whose milk wagon was struck by a Bergen Street trolley car.” New York Sun, June 30, 1907
1879: Fritz, Faust, and the Cat-Man Peddler of NYC’s Forsyth Street
Posted: 21st September 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Men, Cat StoriesTags: Adolph Armreid, August Scheslau, Cat Men, Cats of New York, Forsyth Street, New York City History, Stephen Delancey
The night before the police had to break down the door to his room at 139 Forsysth Street and shoo about two dozen cats off his bed, 63-year-old Adolph F. Armreid said to his landlord, “I think I am going to die tonight.” A few hours after the police chased the cats away, the neighbors […]
1879: Spitz and the Coin-Laden Cats and Dogs on East Broadway in the Lower East Side
Posted: 22nd August 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: 101 East Broadway, Cats of Old New York, Hendrick Rutgers, Henry Rutgers, Jane McAdam, Lower East Side, New York City History, William B. Crosby
Jane McAdam’s two dogs and nine cats depended on her to feed them and provide water every day. That’s why she was determined to ensure their care when she was sentenced to prison for six months in February 1879.
