An unnamed, heroic stray cat and a mischievous mouse played a prominent role in a fire that forced a dozen families from the double brick apartment at 561 49th Street (present-day Sunset Park neighborhood) on December 4, 1908.
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1908: The Brooklyn Cat of Sunset Park Who Sounded the Alarm For Fire
Posted: 22nd October 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Aaron Platt, Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, John Duffy, Martenus Bergen, Sunset Park
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1921: The Cat That Screamed Bloody Murder in Jamaica Village, Queens
Posted: 1st August 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Cats of Old New York, Charles Herriman, Herriman Avenue, James Herriman, Queens history, Village of Jamaica
Hurry up! There is murder at Herriman Avenue, Jamaica. The telephone receiver is off the hook and I can hear terrible screams and groans. Send the police department down quick.”
That was the breathless message that Lieutenant Louis Keppel of the Jamaica police precinct received shortly after midnight exactly one hundred years ago, on July 31, 1921. The voice was coming from a frantic telephone operator.
1896: Thomas Wood, The Washington Street Factory Cat With Ten Lives
Posted: 8th June 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: American Wood Decorating Machine Company, Benjamin Haskell, Cats in New York History, Cats of Old New York, Tribeca History, Washington Street Urban Renewal
Thomas Wood was one of the many feline tenants of 290 Washington Street, a large, six-story brick factory building on the northwest corner of Washington and Chamber streets. Originally the pet cat of a dye maker at the factory, he made his home on the third floor, which was occupied by the American Wood Decorating Machine Company.
1899: Harry Cat, the Lazy, Husky Hero of Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights
Posted: 22nd May 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: 8 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Grace Court, John Hill Prentice, William S. Packer
Harry Cat was a large and lazy solid white cat. He lived with a woman named Mrs. Lester and his twin feline brothers, Tom and Dick, in a wood frame boarding house at 8 Remsen Street. On December 10, 1899, he saved the 65-year-old house from burning down.
1895: Dolph, the Fine Cat “Goated Into” a Tight Spot at the East Harlem Ice Palace
Posted: 12th April 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Cats of Old New York, Harlem history, Ice Palace Skating Rink, New Star Casino, New York City History, Star Theatre, Wolf Falk
Dolph the cat could do many tricks, but his skills did not come in handy when a goat led him into the Ice Palace Skating Rink on East 107th Street, where he was stuck without food and water for eight days.
