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1899: The Anti-Cat Club and the Catastrophic Cat Fight at the Windermere Apartments

Posted: 28th April 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Cat Stories
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In the spring of 1899, 18 years after the Windermere opened at 400 West 57th Street, a war broke out between the cat-loving and cat-hating tenants.

I must warn you that this true story involves gun violence against cats, but it also provides a unique insight into life at the Windermere (one of the city’s oldest apartment buildings) and life in Old New York.

1890: Tom and Jerry and the Famous Trotters Who Went Sleigh Riding on Jerome Avenue

Posted: 4th January 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Horse Tales
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the first snowfall of the season in New York City was marked by a race in horse-drawn sleighs. Trotters of wealthy captains of industry, railroad men, bankers, merchants, and stablemen would race through Central Park, down Seventh Avenue, over the Central Bridge (Macombs Dam Bridge), and down Central Avenue (Jerome Avenue) to the popular roadhouses in what was then the West Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx.

1901: Tom, the Deaf Cat of New York’s Post Office Feline Police Force

Posted: 30th October 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Men, Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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A librarian recently asked me what makes an old news story worthy of further research and posting on my website. I told her that not only does it need to be a great animal tale, but it must also be a good people story or have ties to interesting historical buildings or events. The following story about a deaf New York Post Office cat and the deaf postal worker who loved him meets all my criteria for a fabulous animal story of Old New York. Sit back and enjoy.

1896: Thomas Wood, The Washington Street Factory Cat With Ten Lives

Posted: 8th June 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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Thomas Wood was one of the many feline tenants of 290 Washington Street, a large, six-story brick factory building on the northwest corner of Washington and Chamber streets. Originally the pet cat of a dye maker at the factory, he made his home on the third floor, which was occupied by the American Wood Decorating Machine Company.

1916: Crazy Cat and the Bohemian Greenwich Village Felines of Sheridan Square, Part I

Posted: 7th May 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories
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You may nearly fall over the black-and-white feline which belongs to no one in any of the buildings, but which haunts them all like an unquiet ghost, and which is known by everyone as the Crazy Cat.

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