Posts Tagged ‘Cats of Old New York’

Red Cross was a pure white kitten who was born at Bellevue Hospital in 1904, All the doctors adored her, and she had full run of the hospital grounds–including one very tall tree.

When a Maltese cat owned by NYPD Superintendent James J. Kelso was reportedly stolen from his home on East 55th Street, the cat burglary made the headlines in several national newspapers.

A veteran mother cat with strong maternal instincts saved her five kittens when a two-story frame house caught fire in the Hammels section of Rockaway Beach.

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.

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.