You may nearly fall over the black-and-white feline which belongs to no one in any of the buildings, but which haunts them all like an unquiet ghost, and which is known by everyone as the Crazy Cat.
Archive for the ‘Cat Stories’ Category
1916: Crazy Cat and the Bohemian Greenwich Village Felines of Sheridan Square, Part I
Posted: 7th May 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Cat Stories, Don Dickerman, Greenwich Village, Margaret A. Huntington, New York History, Pirate's Cave, Sheridan Square, Will o' the Wisp
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1911: New York’s Buzzer, the Most Photographed Cat in America
Posted: 16th April 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Arnold Genthe, Buzzer the cat, Cat Stories, Charles Thorley, New York History
Among the more than 1,000 images of Arnold Genthe’s photographs in the Library of Congress Collection’s digital library, 82 feature his beloved cat Buzzer.
1881: Humpty Dumpty, Colonel Washington, and the Featured Felines of the Cat Congress on Broadway
Posted: 28th February 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Congress, George L. Fox, Geroge B. Bunnell, New American Museum, New York History, Old New York, Robert Richard Randal
Although the first National Cat Show at Madison Square Garden II in May 1895 is often cited as the first cat show in America, there were actually quite a few cat shows in New York City, including the Cat Congress at the New American Museum on Broadway.
1891: The Well-Bred Cats and Dogs of the Whitby Kennels in Flatbush, Brooklyn
Posted: 13th February 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Dog TailsTags: Dominie Freeman, Flatbush Avenue, Hurlbut Chapman, John C. Bergen, New York History, Teunis Bergen, Whitby Kennels
In 1891, Hurlbut Chapman, a once prominent lawyer from Rye, New York, leased the old John C. Bergen homestead at 972 Flatbush Avenue, at the corner of Avenue A (today’s Albemarle Road). There, he opened the Whitby Kennels, where he boarded the dogs and cats of wealthy New Yorkers.
1894: The Irish Cat, the Spanish Duke, and New York Mayor Gilroy
Posted: 16th January 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Feline MascotsTags: Duke of Veragua, Francis W. Dickins, New York History, Old New York, Thomas F. Gilroy
Miss Bridget Cork, a dark gray Irish cat, arrived at New York City Hall on February 14, 1894.
