Somewhere under an apartment building on West 121st Street, on a section of the street just east of Amsterdam Avenue called George Carlin Way, lies the body of a large Newfoundland who was buried on an early spring day in 1896. His grave, once “marked by a floral display seldom equaled by a rich man’s funeral,” is now under tons of concrete and steel. But the story of Nero, the beloved Newfoundland of Fire Patrol No. 5, will live on through this animal tale of Old New York.
Archive for the ‘Dog Mascots’ Category
1896: Nero, the Beloved Newfoundland of Harlem’s Fire Patrol No. 5
Posted: 17th September 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Mascots, FDNY Horses/MascotsTags: 307 West 121st Street, FDNY Fire Patrol, FDNY history, Fire Patrol No. 5, George Carlin Way, Harlem history
1924: Sport, the Richmond Hill Police Dog Who Rescued a Cat Family
Posted: 3rd September 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Heroes, Dog MascotsTags: Herbert Graham, New York Police Department, NYPD history, Richmond Hill Police, Richmond Hill Queens
A few weeks after a collie adopted the men of the Richmond Hill police station, he found a mother cat with newborn kittens in an alley near the police station. After carefully considering the situation, he decided to make preparations to be their knight in shining armor.
1903: Bob, the Canine Golf Caddy of Brooklyn’s Marine and Field Club
Posted: 24th February 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Mascots, Dog TailsTags: Brooklyn History, Dyker Meadow Golf Club, James Pottle, Marine and Field Club, Maud B. Pottle
Bob was an intelligent greyhound owned by a young golfer named Miss Maud Beatrice Pottle of Bath Beach, Brooklyn. He was specially trained to be Miss Pottle’s golf caddy. She even made a harness for him which allowed him to securely carry her golf clubs.
1902: Jerry, the Good Dog Gone Bad at Brooklyn’s Greenpoint Avenue Police Station
Posted: 5th January 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Mascots, Dog TailsTags: Brooklyn History, Brooklyn Police History, Greenpoint Avenue, John A. Meserole, Neziah Bliss, NYPD history
In Old New York, almost every police station had a least one canine mascot in addition to one or more feline mousers. Although the cats seemed to get most of the press in those days, every once and a while a story about a police station’s mascot dog would appear in the paper. Oftentimes, the […]
1904: Subway Nellie, the Irish Setter Mascot of the Station at Bleecker and Elm Streets
Posted: 5th November 2018 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Mascots, Dog TailsTags: 166 Crosby Street, 634 Broadway, Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, Bleecker Street, New York History
A few years ago, I wrote about a mixed-breed dog who made herself at home at the excavation site of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) Joralemon-Street Tunnel under the East River. The men christened the dog Subway Nellie, in order to make sure no one confused her with all the other dogs named Nellie […]