The new electric traffic lights on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn were confusing to some motorists and pedestrians. But not to Nickie, the black cat of Motorcycle Squad No. 2 adjoining the former 18th Precinct police station on the southwest corner of 4th Avenue and 43rd Street in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park.
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1927: Nickie, the NYPD Motorcycle Squad Cat Who Obeyed Traffic Signals
Posted: 27th August 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Feline Mascots, NYPD MascotsTags: Cats of Old New York, Motorcycle Squad, NYPD history, police cats, Sunset Park
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1904: Fanny and Mike, the Black Cat Mascots of the NYPD Harbor Police
Posted: 6th October 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cats in the Mews, Feline MascotsTags: Cats of Old New York, Harbor Police, NYPD history, NYPD Mascots, Pier 1, Pier A, William Dean
October is Black Cats of Old New York Month!
On September 19, 1904, Captain William Dean of the NYPD Harbor Police contacted the New York Times to brag about the rescue of a large black cat. The cat, which the men named Mike, joined another black cat named Fanny on the Harbor Police patrol boat.
1936: Tige, the NYPD Cat Who Gave Birth in the Fingerprint Room
Posted: 19th March 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cats in the Mews, Feline MascotsTags: 240 Centre Street, Cats of Old New York, John A. Lyons, NYPD history, police cats
One day after Tige, the police cat of the NYPD headquarters building, gave birth to four kittens, a detective recorded their paw prints on official NYPD fingerprint sheets.
1923: Tramp, the Beloved Police Cat of the Richmond Hill Police Station
Posted: 25th August 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Feline MascotsTags: 102nd Preciinct, 283rd Precinct, Cats of Old New York, police cats, Queens history, Richmond Hill Police, Richmond Hill Queens
In March 1916, the Richmond Hill Police precinct, which covered all of Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Morris Park, and part of Forest Hills, was designated a mounted precinct. That is, every mounted police officer throughout Queens was transferred to the 283rd Precinct in Richmond Hill.
With more horses came more stables — and more vermin. What the Richmond Hill Police needed was a good to mouser to handle all the rats and mice that shared the stables with the horses.
