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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.

1892: Rosy the Manatee and 90 Swans-a-Swimming on New York’s Roosevelt Street

Posted: 3rd December 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Animal Stories
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Once upon a time, before New York City’s “deep East Side” was razed to make way for new public housing projects, there was a little colonial-era street just north of the Brooklyn Bridge called Roosevelt Street, where Donald Burns sold wild animals.

The P.T. Barnum Museum and Menagerie at Broadway and Ann Street, Part III

Posted: 25th October 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Animal Stories
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When most of us hear the name P.T. Barnum, we automatically think of the circus and “The Greatest Show on Earth.” But many years before P.T. Barnum’s Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Circus made its debut in 1870 — and 40 years before he partnered with James A. Bailey – Phineas Taylor Barnum rose […]

1891: Timothy McGrath and His Organ Grinder Terrier of the Tenderloin District

Posted: 23rd May 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Dog Tails
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One organ grinder who broke the mold was Irishman Timothy McGrath, who, for over 10 years, played his hand-organ along 7th and 8th avenues in New York City’s Tenderloin District. Instead of a monkey, Timothy had a grizzly-haired Skye terrier who would sit on top of the organ wrapped in a blanket and holding a basket in his mouth.

1893: The Kangaroo That Kicked and Boxed at Koster and Bial’s Music Hall

Posted: 14th April 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions
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Frank the boxing kangaroo was a headliner at Koster & Bial’s Music Hall, a vaudeville theater and beer garden at the northwest corner of 23rd Street and 6th Avenue.

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