In 1917, the president of the Bowling Green Neighborhood Association (BGNA) came up with a plan to help control the feral cat population in Manhattan’s Lower West Side. Dr. Miner C. Hill, a pediatrician in charge of the nonprofit association’s baby clinic, believed that the stray cats were responsible for spreading diseases to the poor […]
Posts Tagged ‘Cat Stories’
1926: The Last of the Bowling Green Cat Massacres in New York City’s “Little Syria,” Part II
Posted: 29th May 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Bowling Green, Bowling Green Neighborhood Association, Cat Stories, Little Syria, Lower West Side, New York City History
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1911: Buster, Topsy, and Yaller, the Police Mascots of NYC’s Lower East Side, Part 1
Posted: 3rd March 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat MascotsTags: Cat Stories, Lower East Side, New York History, NYPD, police cats, police mascots
Part I: Buster and Topsy, the Rival Police Cat Mascots On the evening of December 6, 1911, the men of the old Eldridge Street police precinct in New York City’s Lower East Side moved into the brand-new station house occupied by the men of the old Delancey Street precinct. The large modern building at the corner of Clinton and […]
1887: Punch and Chico, the Photogenic Dogs of Alice Austen That Lived Where History Was Made in Staten Island, Part I
Posted: 10th February 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Alice Austen, Cat Stories, Clear Comfort, Dog stories, Gertrude Tate, Oswald Muller, Staten Island history
George Washington. Ben Franklin. General William Howe. Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt. These are just a few of the prominent men in history who visited the 17th-century farmhouse on the banks of The Narrows in Rosebank, Staten Island, where photographer Alice Austen made history in the late 19th century. Today, this old farmhouse where Alice lived with her family […]
1886: The 10 Lives of Hero, the New York City Fire Cat of Chelsea, Part I
Posted: 26th December 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Cat Stories, fire cat, Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry, Grand Street Ferry, John Leake Norton, New York History, The Hermitage Farm
Part I of this Old New York cat tale begins in 1825 at the old Hermitage Farm on the west side of Manhattan, where a large horse car depot was built in 1864.
1888: Union Square Jim, the Mascot Cat of New York’s Union Square Theatre, II
Posted: 21st August 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: B.F. Keith, Cat Stories, James M. Hill, Michael Sweeney, Morton House, New York History, Old New York, Union Square Theatre
Union Square Jim was a large, blue-eyed, orange tabby mascot of the old Union Square Theatre in New York City. Jim was born in the theater sometime around 1886, a year after James Hill took over as manager of the theater.
