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 […]
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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
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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 […]
1895: Taffy, The Laird, and the Clowder of Town Topics Office Cats on Fifth Avenue
Posted: 1st April 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: 208 Fifth Avenue, Colonel William D'Alton Mann, Delmonico's, New York History, office cats, Old New York, Town Topics
Although they did not take home any ribbons, a trio of black cats belonging to Colonel William D’Alton Mann, publisher of the Town Topics society magazine, were the center of attraction at New York City’s first official cat show.
1891: Princess, Josephine, and the 101 Feline Models of New York City Cat Artist J.H. Dolph, Part II
Posted: 28th January 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: 21 Academy Lane, cat painter, cats in history, J.H. Dolph, New York History
“The leading cat-painter of America is Mr. J. H. Dolph, whom everyone knows, for his works appear constantly at exhibitions. He has worked and studied much abroad, at Paris, Antwerp, and Rome. Mr. Dolph excels in the delineation of feline and canine character.”–The Monthly Illustrator, Vol. 2, 1894 In Part I of this Old New cat tale, we met John Henry […]
