Posts Tagged ‘Brooklyn History’

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.

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.

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.

When a fire broke out on Halloween at 1632-1640 Pitkin Avenue in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, a mama cat was not about to let the firemen ignore her box of kittens.

When a Bergen Street trolley struck a horse-drawn milk wagon near the corner of New York Avenue in 1907, street cats and parlor cats came from every direction to wade and wallow in the spilled milk.