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.
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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
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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.
1908: Pete, The Test Pilot Cat of the Junior Aero Club Who Refused to Fly
Posted: 6th April 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Cats of Old New York, Emma Lilian Todd, Junior Aero Club, Radio Club of America
On April 4, 1908, the members of the Junior Aero Club held a meeting on the roof of 282 Ninth Avenue near 26th Street. This six-story building was then a factory owned by A. Leo Stevens, where he made dirigible balloons. The purpose of the meeting was “to liberate” about 200 rubber balloons and several larger balloons and small airplanes that the young boys had made from tissue paper and canvas.
On this particular day, there was a cat named Pete on the roof. I don’t know how Pete came to be on this roof, but apparently he was the pet of one of the members or organizers of the Junior Aero Club. He was also the club’s unwilling test pilot.
1934: Old Timer, Mr. White, and Jonathan, the Gentlemen Cats of Greenwich Avenue
Posted: 7th March 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Cats of Old New York, Emily Burmeister, Greenwich Avenue, Monument Lane, New York City History, Road to the Obelisk
Greenwich Village in the early 1900s was home to many notable cats that made the headline news. There were the Bohemian cats led by Crazy Cat, who reigned supreme around Sheridan Square during the 1910s. And there were the more refined gentlemen cats like Old Timer, Mr. White, and Jonathan, who occupied the feline throne on Greenwich Avenue in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
1920: Kelly, the Cat That Sailed on the RMS Aquitania in a Sealed Mail Sack
Posted: 16th January 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Cats of Old New York, Eamon De Valera, Irish Republic, RMS Aquitania, Seafaring cats
On Saturday, December 11, 1920, employees at the New York General Post Office got a big surprise while opening some mail delivered to the United States from England via the steamship RMS Aquitania. Inside one sealed mail sack was a small male kitten.
