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 […]
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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
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1930: Tammany, the Democratic Boss Cat of New York’s City Hall
Posted: 15th February 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Featured Felines, Feline MascotsTags: Cat Stories, Henry H. Curran, Mayor LaGuardia, New York City Hall, New York History, Speyer Hospital for Animals, Tammany
I once wrote about Old Tom, who was a very popular mascot of New York’s City Hall in the early 1900s. Although several other cats took over Tom’s place at City Hall after he died, none of these felines were as popular as Tammany, who occupied City Hall during the administrations of Mayor Jimmy Walker […]
1911: The Corona Cat Farm of Queens That Wasn’t
Posted: 8th February 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Featured FelinesTags: ASPCA, Cat Stories, Corona Queens, fur coat, Henry Bergh, New York History
“If, as the Arabs suppose, the spirits of gentlewomen are re-embodied in cats, there is a delicate appropriateness in this dedication of cat fur to the adornment of living gentlewomen.” –The New York Times, October 12, 1890 “What Smart Women Are Wearing” In the 1800s and early 1900s, furs were all the rage in Paris […]
1904: Jerry Fox, the Spectacled Cat of Brooklyn Who Saved Borough Hall
Posted: 27th January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Featured FelinesTags: Animal Tales, Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn Municipal Building, Cat Stories, Murphy Park, New York History
Recently, I wrote about Tom, the mascot of New York’s City Hall from 1891 to 1908. Tom may have acted as if he were the king cat of New York, but that’s probably because he didn’t know about his feline counterpart in Brooklyn. Jerry Fox, an enormous tiger cat “of striking appearance” who performed heroic […]
1891: Old Tom Cat, the Brazen Pampered Pet of New York City Hall
Posted: 3rd January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Featured Felines, Feline MascotsTags: Cat Stories, Ellsworth Zouaves, Martin J. Keese, Marty Keese, Matthew T. Brennan, New York City Hall, New York History
It was a cold and wet day in 1891 when the homely tabby kitten with white paws first tried to make New York’s City Hall his manor home. Somehow he got the nerve to march up the steps and enter the front door, saunter down the long hallway, and calmly begin to lick his fur dry.
