Before there was a Seward Park on Essex Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was a square block of old wooden houses and crumbling brick tenements where hundreds of immigrants and alley cats made their home.There once was a woman named Rosalie Goodman who lived in a dilapidated frame tenement house on […]
Posts Tagged ‘Cat Stories’
1871: Rosalie Goodman, the Crazy Cat Lady of New York’s Lower East Side
Posted: 5th April 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Crazy Cat Ladies, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Stories, Crazy Cat Lady, Delancey Square, Lower East Side, New York History, Rosalie Goodman, Seward Park
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1913: Peter, the Pole-Sliding Fire Cat of Bushwick, Brooklyn
Posted: 13th March 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Feline MascotsTags: Brooklyn, Bushwick, cat mascots, Cat Stories, FDNY, New York History, Squad 252
The following story is dedicated to the six firefighters of Squad 252 in Bushwick, Brooklyn, who lost their lives at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. I’ve never known a cat to be very fond of fires and fire trucks – albeit, my cat Boo does love to climb ladders and bake in […]
1898: Peggy the Pug, Tom, and the Cat Martyrs of the USS Maine
Posted: 22nd February 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Mascots, Feline MascotsTags: Brooklyn Navy Yard, Captain Sigsbee, Cat Stories, New York History, Peggy the pug, Ship mascots, USS Maine
During the 1800s and early 1900s, the Brooklyn Navy Yard served as a pseudo receiving and distributing station for the animal mascots of American warships. Some of these animals, like Tom of the USS Maine, were born at the Navy Yard, while others stopped in to visit from time to time during their many years […]
1930: Tammany, the Democratic Boss Cat of New York’s City Hall
Posted: 15th February 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Featured Felines, Feline MascotsTags: Cat Stories, Henry H. Curran, Mayor LaGuardia, New York City Hall, New York History, Speyer Hospital for Animals, Tammany
I once wrote about Old Tom, who was a very popular mascot of New York’s City Hall in the early 1900s. Although several other cats took over Tom’s place at City Hall after he died, none of these felines were as popular as Tammany, who occupied City Hall during the administrations of Mayor Jimmy Walker […]
1911: The Corona Cat Farm of Queens That Wasn’t
Posted: 8th February 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Featured FelinesTags: ASPCA, Cat Stories, Corona Queens, fur coat, Henry Bergh, New York History
“If, as the Arabs suppose, the spirits of gentlewomen are re-embodied in cats, there is a delicate appropriateness in this dedication of cat fur to the adornment of living gentlewomen.” –The New York Times, October 12, 1890 “What Smart Women Are Wearing” In the 1800s and early 1900s, furs were all the rage in Paris […]
