But for an alarm of fire sounded by the three pets in the household of Bernard Abrahams at 90 St. Marks Place in Brooklyn, the members of three families may have lost their lives on August 23, 1899. That day, Mrs. Abrahams was awakened by the barking, screeching, and meowing of the family’s brindle bull […]
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1899: The Lifesaving Pets of Brooklyn That Saved Three Families on St. Marks Place
Posted: 2nd June 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Animal StoriesTags: Bernard Abrahams, Brooklyn History, Pieter Claesen Wyckoff, Seney Hospital, St. Marks Place
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1927: Victory, the Good-Luck Cat of the Brooklyn Robins (aka Brooklyn Dodgers)
Posted: 5th April 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Brooklyn Dodgers, Brooklyn History, New York City History, Old Stone House, Vechte-Cortelyou House, Washington Park
With the 2023 baseball season upon us, the story of the Brooklyn Robins feline mascot is a great “Did You Know?” story to share with the cat lovers and baseball fans in your life.
The story also has ties to the Old Stone House of Gowanus, where hundreds of Maryland soldiers lost their lives while trying to save George Washington and his troops during the Revolutionary War.
This is Part 1 of a two-part story.
1895: Mike, The Williamsburg Post Office Cat Almost Mailed Overseas
Posted: 26th February 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: A.J. Eamley, Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Lucius N. Palmer, Station W, Williamsburg
Here is the fun tale of Mike, the female Williamsburg Post Office cat. Not only was Mike misnamed, she was “missent.” If there had been an Internet back then, this story would have surely gone viral.
1949: Cheechee, the Cigar Store Cat at Schermerhorn and Smith Streets Who Came Home for Christmas
Posted: 28th November 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: Amber Davis, Brooklyn Children's Court, Brooklyn History, David Karp, Elizabeth Eaton Carver Whittier, Robert J. Wilkin, Thomas Tupper Whittier
When Cheechee disappeared from the Central Court Cigar Store at the corner of Schermerhorn and Smith Streets just a few weeks before Christmas in 1949, everyone in the neighborhood lost some of their holiday cheer. Kids from one to 92 would not have a merry Christmas until Santa brought her back safely.
1934: Brownie and Flora, the Dog and Cat Guardians of Brooklyn’s Pier 12
Posted: 18th October 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Dog TailsTags: Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Company, Joe Santanelli, Montague Street, New York Dock Company, Pierrepont
Many old stories have been told of the Brooklyn-born canine and feline mascots that went to sea (like Peggy and Tom of the USS Maine, as an example), but this tale, which takes place at Pier 12 of the New York Dock Company, is about a landlubber dog and cat who patrolled the Brooklyn waterfront.
