When Patrolman Cornelius O’Neil found the yellow dog he named Bum on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, the mangy mutt was half-starved and trailing remnants of a pack of firecrackers by his tail. Patrolman O’Neil decided to rescue the dog and make him the mascot police dog of the newly designated 12th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.
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1912: Bum, the Heroic NYC Police Dog of Notorious Mulberry Street
Posted: 28th September 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, FDNY Horses/MascotsTags: 12th Precinct, Bideawee, Charles J. Teare, Cornelius O'Neil, Mulberry Street, New York History, NYPD, Oresto Shillitani, William B. Heaney
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1908: Max, the Hero Police Dog of Parkville, Brooklyn
Posted: 13th July 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Animal Tales, Brooklyn, Flatbush, George R. Wakefield, New York History, NYPD, Parkville Police, police dogs
Part I of a Parkville Precinct Puppy Tale In 1907 the Police Department of the City of New York, under the command of Police Commissioner Theodore Bingham, sent Inspector George R. Wakefield to Paris and Ghent, Belgium, to look into acquiring some police dogs. Police dogs had been gaining popularity in Europe since their first […]
1888: Requiem for Ginger, the Fire Dog of Greenwich Village
Posted: 26th May 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, FDNY Horses/MascotsTags: 96 Charles Street, Columbian No. 14, fire dog, Hook and Ladder Company No. 5, Metropolitan Fire Department, New York History, Old New York
Although their names were omitted from the payrolls, the fire dogs of the Metropolitan Fire Department played some very important roles in nineteenth-century New York City.
