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.
Posts Tagged ‘Cats of Old New York’
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
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1921: Minnie, the Feline Mascot of the Hotel St. George in Brooklyn Heights
Posted: 14th July 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cats in the MewsTags: Brooklyn History, Cats of Old New York, Hotel Cats, Hotel St. George, John Middagh, William Tumbridge
The Algonquin Hotel may have had Billy and Rusty the cats, and the Hotel Lincoln may have had Abe the cat, but these male cats could not be mothers. Minnie was not only the mascot of the Hotel St. George, but she was a mother to 160 kittens.
1915: Pussy Suff, the Cheerleading Cat of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association
Posted: 22nd June 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cats in the MewsTags: Brooklyn History, Brooklyn Woman Suffrage, Carrie Chapman Catt, Cats of Old New York, suffrage movement
There is a saying that goes, “Cats rule. Dogs drool.” When it came to picking a side during the women’s suffrage movement in Brooklyn, the cat in this story ruled. She picked the winning side–the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association.
