Once upon a time, before New York City’s “deep East Side” was razed to make way for new public housing projects, there was a little colonial-era street just north of the Brooklyn Bridge called Roosevelt Street, where Donald Burns sold wild animals.
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1914: Caliph Murphy II, the Hippo That Saved the Central Park Lion House
Posted: 29th March 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Animal AttractionsTags: Caliph II, Central Park Arsenal, Central Park menagerie, Central Park Zoo, John W. Smith, Mrs. Murphy, Thomas Frank Hoey
On the evening of December 6, 1914, the veteran night watchman at the Central Park Menagerie was making his rounds when he heard Caliph Murphy II roaring from inside the lion house. Caliph II had never roared like that before, so the loud noise caught Louis Seibold’s attention. He looked toward the lion house and […]
