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 […]
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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
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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 […]
1891: Princess, Josephine, and the 101 Feline Models of New York City Cat Artist J.H. Dolph, Part I
Posted: 21st January 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: 21 Academy Lane, 58 West 58th Street, cat artists, cats in history, J.H. Dolph, John Henry Dolph, New York City History, Sherwood Studio Building
The more J.H. Dolph painted cats, the more the public demanded his cat paintings. Soon he was known only for his cat paintings and nobody paid any attention to his human portraits or landscapes.
1886: The 10 Lives of Hero, the New York City Fire Cat of Chelsea, Part II
Posted: 29th December 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: 165 West 29th Street, Deputy Chief John McCabe, James A. Stewart, John "Bucky" McCabe, Metropolitan Steam Fire Engine Company No. 1, New York City History, Stewart Street
We last left off at the the car stables of the 42nd St. and Grand St. Ferry Railroad, on the east side of Twelfth Ave. It is the night of June 12, 1886, and about a dozen cats are fighting for their lives as a large fire burns their home to the ground…
