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 […]
Archive for the ‘Dog Tails’ Category
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
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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 […]
1922: The Daily News Asks: Does New York City Have Too Many Dogs?
Posted: 25th August 2018 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Daily News, Francis Bayard Winthrop, Joseph W. Gavan, New York History, Nicholas Stilwell, Tudor City, Turtle Bay
Since my last two posts were about too many cats, I thought it appropriate to be fair and balanced by following up with a story about the history of the Daily News and too many dogs. Years ago, the New York Daily News had a daily feature called “The Inquiring Photographer,” in which citizens suggested questions […]
1885: Black Jack, the Police Hound Pardoned at Concordia Hall on Lower East Side
Posted: 2nd July 2018 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Concordia Hall, John H. McCullagh, Kleindeutschland, New York City History, Old New York, Sozialistischer Frauenbund
In a recent post, I wrote about Mrs. Arthur Murray Dodge, an anti-feminist who cared deeply for children and stray cats, but who strongly opposed the women’s suffragist movement. This following animal tale of Old New York features a woman named Miss Block, a German feminist whom I’m certain was strongly in favor of giving women the right to vote. […]
