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.
Posts Tagged ‘Brooklyn History’
1921: The Pitkin Avenue Fire Cat and Her Lucky Halloween Kittens
Posted: 31st October 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Brooklyn History, Brownsville, Cats of Old New York, Engine Company 233, John R. Pitkin, New York City History, Pitkin Avenue
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1907: The Bedford Cats of Brooklyn Who Swam in Milk on Bergen Street, Part II
Posted: 27th October 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Bedford Corners, Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Lefferts, New York City History
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.
1907: The Bedford, Brooklyn Cats Who Swam in Milk on Bergen Street, Part I
Posted: 20th October 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Bedford Corners, Bergen Street, Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Lefferts, New York City History
“Midnight prowlers and back-fence howlers enjoyed a lacteal orgy yesterday morning at the expense of William Evans, 250 Herkimer Street, whose milk wagon was struck by a Bergen Street trolley car.” New York Sun, June 30, 1907
1904: Lillian Russell, the Fishing Cat of Brooklyn’s Dyker Meadow Golf Club, II
Posted: 19th May 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Brooklyn History, Dyker Beach, Lillian Russell, New York City History
From 1900 to 1908, the Dyker Meadow Golf Club had a mascot cat named Lillian Russell who was an expert fishing cat.
1904: Lillian Russell, the Fishing Cat of Brooklyn’s Dyker Meadow Golf Club, I
Posted: 13th May 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Brooklyn History, Dyker Meadow Golf Course, Fort Hamilton, Jacques Cortelyou, New York History, Peter Cortelyou
Part I of a 2-Part Cat Tale Fishing at Dyker Meadows In 1821, Peter Cortelyou wrote a letter to William J. Lott concerning some local fishing practices that he thought could jeopardize the Cortelyou family fishery. The fishery was located on the Narrows at the foot of present-day Battery Avenue, adjacent to Dyker Meadows and […]
