This story features a wealthy miser who lived frugally despite her wealth, about a dozen cats that lived with her in a dingy apartment, an ottoman stuffed with cash, and a few cows that made the Goelet family one of the richest landowners in midtown Manhattan in the 19th and early 20th century.
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1927: Nickie, the NYPD Motorcycle Squad Cat Who Obeyed Traffic Signals
Posted: 27th August 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Feline Mascots, NYPD MascotsTags: Cats of Old New York, Motorcycle Squad, NYPD history, police cats, Sunset Park
The new electric traffic lights on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn were confusing to some motorists and pedestrians. But not to Nickie, the black cat of Motorcycle Squad No. 2 adjoining the former 18th Precinct police station on the southwest corner of 4th Avenue and 43rd Street in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park.
