The following cat story of Old Brooklyn is courtesy of The Brownstone Detectives, who first published this tale in March 2017. I take the story one step further by exploring the history around the Grand Street Museum and the land on which it was once located. Agent Clark Investigates a Report of Cruelty to Cats […]
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1887: Raining Cats and Soap Bubbles at the Grand Street Museum in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Posted: 2nd July 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: 194 Grand Street, Alden J. Spooner, Brooklyn, Grand Street Museum, New York History, Williamsburg
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1928: Abe, the Times Square Tiger Cat Who Refused to Scat From the Hotel Lincoln, II
Posted: 10th June 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Hotel Lincoln, James T. Clyde, Manhattan Hotel, Milford Plaza, New York City History
“A half-grown cat has adopted the Hotel Lincoln as its permanent home. Cats have always been regarded as a good omen, especially when they come to the door unsolicited. This kitten has a special history. He was born on the site of the present hotel, and spent his life in the debris while the hotel […]
1928: Abe, the Times Square Tiger Cat Who Refused to Scat From the Hotel Lincoln, Part I
Posted: 4th June 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Cat Stories, Farm at Bloomingdale, Hotel Lincoln, James T. Clyde, Medcef Eden, New York History
Some studies have shown that where you’re born has a huge impact on how far you’ll go in life. I think the same holds true for cats, especially those who are born in large cities like New York. When Abe’s mother cat gave birth to three kittens in New York City’s Time Square neighborhood in […]
1926: The Last of the Bowling Green Cat Massacres in New York City’s “Little Syria,” Part II
Posted: 29th May 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Bowling Green, Bowling Green Neighborhood Association, Cat Stories, Little Syria, Lower West Side, New York City History
In 1917, the president of the Bowling Green Neighborhood Association (BGNA) came up with a plan to help control the feral cat population in Manhattan’s Lower West Side. Dr. Miner C. Hill, a pediatrician in charge of the nonprofit association’s baby clinic, believed that the stray cats were responsible for spreading diseases to the poor […]
1926: The Last of the Bowling Green Cat Massacres in New York City’s “Little Syria,” Part I
Posted: 25th May 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: B.T. Babbitt, Bowling Green Neighborhood Association, Little Syria, Lower West Side, Miner C. Hall, New York History
The Bowling Green Cat Roundup “When darkness settled down last night over the territory encompassed by West Street and Broadway, Vesey Street and the Battery, and lights began to blink in the tenement quarters of Syrians, Turks, Hungarians and Russians, eerie dirges rose from pitchy backyards. There was a melancholia in the walls, a lost […]
