In one of a cluster of six shabby little frame houses at Hoyt and Livingston Streets, Brooklyn, stubbornly holding their own there against the huge overshadowing business buildings reared all about them, there lived until yesterday a hermit spinster, Miss Octavia Fredericks. The neighborhood was full of stories of her, many of them purely legendary […]
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1912: The Cat Lady of Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, and the Mysterious Thanksgiving Day Fire
Posted: 13th November 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat LadiesTags: Alphonse Friedrich, Anthony Oreckinto, Brooklyn History, Cat Stories, Hoyt Street, New York History, Octavia Friedrich
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1893: The Crazy New York Cat Ladies and the Murderous Midnight Band of Mercy, Part II
Posted: 2nd July 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat LadiesTags: Caroline Ewen, Cat Stories, crazy cat ladies, Grace Devide, Nellie Bly, New York History, Sarah J. Edwards
Part II: The Midnight Band of Mercy “I suppose I am mad. For a woman to care nothing for her appearance or how she lives is a sure sign of madness. I have nothing in common with anything except animals, and them I love.”—Grace Georgia Devide, The New York World, December 31, 1893 “The Midnight […]
1890: The Crazy Cat Ladies and The Murderous Midnight Band of Mercy, Part I
Posted: 1st July 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat LadiesTags: Barney Bowers, Cat Stories, Crazy Cat Lady, Grace Devide, New York History, Sarah J. Edwards, Washington Heights
Part I: The Society to Befriend Domestic Animals Like all crazy cat ladies or cat hoarders, Mrs. Sarah J. Edwards and Mrs. Grace Georgia Devide had good intentions when they opened a refuge for homeless cats in 1890. But something went terribly wrong, and a mission to provide shelter and food for friendless and maltreated […]
1871: Rosalie Goodman, the Crazy Cat Lady of New York’s Lower East Side
Posted: 5th April 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Crazy Cat Ladies, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Stories, Crazy Cat Lady, Delancey Square, Lower East Side, New York History, Rosalie Goodman, Seward Park
Before there was a Seward Park on Essex Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was a square block of old wooden houses and crumbling brick tenements where hundreds of immigrants and alley cats made their home.There once was a woman named Rosalie Goodman who lived in a dilapidated frame tenement house on […]
