Posts Tagged ‘Brooklyn Borough Hall’

A Petition for Jerry Fox, The Blind Hero Cat Who Saved Brooklyn City Hall

Posted: 23rd August 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots
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If you would like to help honor a true hero cat of old Brooklyn, please take a minute to sign our petition for Jerry Fox.

1907: Subway Nellie, the Dog That Christened the IRT East River Subway Tunnel

Posted: 5th February 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails
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On November 27, 1907, the very first train to go to Brooklyn via the new Battery-Joralemon Tunnel left the Wall Street station in Manhattan at 12:30 p.m. This train carried about 200 men, including officials of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, engineers, and reporters. Oh yeah, and a mixed-breed dog named Subway Nellie. In my […]

1904: Jerry Fox, the Spectacled Cat of Brooklyn Who Saved Borough Hall

Posted: 27th January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Featured Felines
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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 […]