The Big Apple, the City That Never Sleeps, the City of Dreams. The city so nice, they named it twice has its share of nicknames. One of my favorites is perhaps its most obscure nickname: Gotham. Gotham is reportedly tied to Washington Irving, author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.” Irving […]
Archive for the ‘Goats of New York’ Category
1934: Pretzels, the Gotham Goat That Graced the Bock Beer Posters
Posted: 31st March 2018 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Goats of New YorkTags: Bock Beer, goat beauty pageant, Gotham, New York History, Pretzels the goat
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1886: Uno and Billy, the Wyoming Bear and Harlem Goat That Wreaked Havoc at the Oak Point Pleasure Grounds in the Bronx
Posted: 26th November 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Goats of New YorkTags: Benjamin M. Whitlock, Bronx, Gabriel Leggett, Jim Pilkerton, New York History, Oak Point, Oak Point Pleasure Grounds, Whitlock's Folly, William Henry Leggett
What happens when an Indiana bear, a Harlem goat, a large crowd of people, and a Wild West cowboy with a silver-plated revolver all come together at a beer garden on the beach? Yes, the following story is from my file called “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up.” On January 8, 1886, two Harlem men […]
1900: The Goats That Goaded the Fox Hills Golfers on Staten Island
Posted: 8th April 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Goats of New YorkTags: Fox Hills Golf Course, Isaac Mackie, Louis Henry Meyer, Mount Manresa, New York History, Rosebank
In 1900, members of the new Fox Hills Golf Club overlooking the Narrows began complaining to authorities about the goats that were running at large and interfering with their game. They claimed that the goats came from “Goatville,” a settlement near Rosebank inhabited primarily by Italian immigrants who held tightly to the old country customs and religion.
1915: The Cowboy Cops of Sheepshead Bay Who Lassoed 4 Dozen Goats in Brooklyn
Posted: 8th August 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Goats of New YorkTags: Edward T. Cody, goats, New York City History, Old Brooklyn, Patrick J. Doody, Sheepshead Bay Police
Patrick Doody and Edward Cody would prove their worth as mounted policemen in Sheepshead Bay, during the greatest roundup of goats in the history of Brooklyn.
1897: Superhero Policeman Fogarty and the Crime-Stopping Goats of East Harlem
Posted: 21st March 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Goats of New YorkTags: East Harlem, Goat Town, Goatville, Harlem Market, New York History, Old New York, Policeman Daniel J. Fogarty
The following story is dedicated in memory of the eight people who died in a building collapse in East Harlem, when a leak in a natural gas pipeline laid in 1887 exploded on March 10, 2014. If you’ve read Edith Wharton’s “The Age of Innocence,” you may recall her describing “the one-story saloons, the wooden […]
