Here is the fun tale of Mike, the female Williamsburg Post Office cat. Not only was Mike misnamed, she was “missent.” If there had been an Internet back then, this story would have surely gone viral.
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1895: Mike, The Williamsburg Post Office Cat Almost Mailed Overseas
Posted: 26th February 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: A.J. Eamley, Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Lucius N. Palmer, Station W, Williamsburg
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1915: The Flushing and Bideawee Cats That Starred in a Gaumont Company Moving Picture
Posted: 7th January 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Captain John Graham, Cats of Old New York, Cissy Fitzgerald, College Point, Eliphalet Stratton, Gaumont Company, Strattonport
When director Edwin Middleton needed dozens of cats for the comedic moving picture “A Corner in Cats,” he turned to the streets of Flushing and the Bide-a-Wee home for animals in Manhattan.
This fun tale features cats, a film studio in Flushing, Queens, and an old mansion in College Point with secret tunnels that may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.
1949: Cheechee, the Cigar Store Cat at Schermerhorn and Smith Streets Who Came Home for Christmas
Posted: 28th November 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Amber Davis, Brooklyn Children's Court, Brooklyn History, David Karp, Elizabeth Eaton Carver Whittier, Robert J. Wilkin, Thomas Tupper Whittier
When Cheechee disappeared from the Central Court Cigar Store at the corner of Schermerhorn and Smith Streets just a few weeks before Christmas in 1949, everyone in the neighborhood lost some of their holiday cheer. Kids from one to 92 would not have a merry Christmas until Santa brought her back safely.
1928: The Pedigreed Cat That Galvanized Plans for a Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Posted: 12th November 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: A.D. Republican Club, Amy Wren, Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Cats of Old New York, Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont, Pierrepont
A few human engineers have tried to take credit for conceiving the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. But it was a pampered pet cat that first got the ball rolling for the clever and successful concept. Yes, a cat.
1915: Jig and the Other Unknown Black Cat of Poe Cottage
Posted: 23rd October 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Black cat, Bronx History, Cats of Old New York, Edgar Allan Poe, John B. Valentine, Orville Guy Victor, Poe Cottage
Many historians and fans of Edgar Allan Poe are no doubt familiar with Catarina, the cat that served as Poe’s muse while he was living in his old cottage in Fordham. But I bet you’d be hard-pressed to find many people, if any at all, who know about Jig or the other black cat of Poe Cottage.
Now you can be one of the few who know this obscure feline fact.
