Posts Tagged ‘Brooklyn History’

True and Unusual Animal Tales of Old Brooklyn: Virtual Zoom Presentation, July 1, 2020; 7 p.m. (ET)

Posted: 27th June 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories
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Join me and the Brooklyn Historical Society as we travel back in time to explore the history of Brooklyn via amazing stories about Brooklyn cats, dogs, horses, and other animals that made the newspaper headlines in the late 1800s and early 1900s. July 1, 2020, 7-8 p.m. (ET). Free. Register today.

1893: A Carroll Gardens Cat and a Tree Grow in Brooklyn

Posted: 19th February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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On February 18, 1893, a young boy rescued a cat that had been stuck high in a maple tree at the corner of Court Street and First Place in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn.

1902: The Cypress Hills Cat Family That Lived in a Church Organ on Fulton Street

Posted: 17th February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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A seemingly uncanny mystery of the church organ, which had puzzled the organist and boys’ choir of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration for more than a week, was solved when a cat walked out from the organ.

1897: The Brooklyn Cat That Stopped Trolley Traffic on Fulton Street

Posted: 9th February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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When a black cat became trapped and held up traffic on the trolley roads running through Fulton Street (Brooklyn), a crowd of people and a trolley motorman came to his rescue.

1935: Nip, the Heroic Kitten-Saving Fire Dog of Brooklyn

Posted: 3rd February 2020 by The Hatching Cat in Cats in the Mews
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A veteran fire dog with Engine Company No. 203 at 533 Hicks Street, was 12 years old and a 6-year legendary veteran with the fire company when he made his eighth heroic rescue on February 2, 1935.

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