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1924: Tom, the 20-Pound Brooklyn Cat of Gage & Tollner on Fulton Street

Posted: 23rd May 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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Tom and his brother cat were born in Gage & Tollner’s restaurant in 1917, when the famous oyster bar and chophouse was on the ground floor of the circa 1875 Craft building at 372-374 Fulton Street. No one knows what happened to his mother and brother, but Tom “apparently recognized his proper sphere in life” and stayed on at Gage & Tollner, where he dined on scallops alongside great icons like Mae West and Jimmy Durante.

1936: Tige, the NYPD Cat Who Gave Birth in the Fingerprint Room

Posted: 19th March 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cats in the Mews, Feline Mascots
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One day after Tige, the police cat of the NYPD headquarters building, gave birth to four kittens, a detective recorded their paw prints on official NYPD fingerprint sheets.

1897: The Cobble Hill Cat That Caused a Commotion in St. Paul’s Church

Posted: 12th March 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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A gaunt tabby cat, a tiny poodle, and a few hysterical children walk into a church… No, this is not the start of a bad bar joke, but it was the start of a comedy of errors that took place at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn on May 2, 1897. According to The New York Times, “never before had such a commotion been raised in this church.”

1925: Dunder, the Carnegie Hill Cat Who Survived a Suicide and Inherited a Fortune

Posted: 27th February 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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Mrs. Elizabeth W. Berhm, a kindly widow of about 61 years old, had always devoted herself to animals. She was known in her Carnegie Hill neighborhood as the “cat woman” because her home was always open to stray cats. In her small, two-room apartment at the rear of 172 East 85th Street, milk and kindness were always waiting for any cat that needed it.

No doubt, then, the neighbors must have been shocked to learn that Elizabeth had almost taken the life of her own pet cat, Dunder, while she committed suicide.

1900: The Midtown Cat That Beat a Possum Wrangler of the Southern Railway

Posted: 8th January 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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Once upon a time, a renowned employee for the Southern Railway lost a battle to a cat that had broken into his home on West 44th Street. This Southern gentlemen was a pro at catching possums, but he was no match for a stray New York City feline.

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