Speck was an ordinary New York City cat who led an ordinary life in Frederick Turkowsky’s plumbing shop at 27 Second Avenue. Up until December 5, 1906, very few people on the Lower East Side, save for Frederick, even knew she existed. According to a plumbing trade journal published in April 1905, Frederick was already established […]
Posts Tagged ‘fire cat’
1906: Speck, the Momma Cat Who Saved Christmas for 16 Families at 27 Second Avenue on the Lower East Side
Posted: 16th December 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: 27 Second Avenue, fire cat, Frederick Turkowsky, Henry Hellmers, hero cat, New York City History, Philip Minthorne
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1886: The 10 Lives of Hero, the New York City Fire Cat of Chelsea, Part I
Posted: 26th December 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Cat Stories, fire cat, Forty-second Street and Grand Street Ferry, Grand Street Ferry, John Leake Norton, New York History, The Hermitage Farm
Part I of this Old New York cat tale begins in 1825 at the old Hermitage Farm on the west side of Manhattan, where a large horse car depot was built in 1864.
1897: Ginger, the “Live Oak” Fire Cat of the Lower East Side
Posted: 12th June 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Featured FelinesTags: Baruch Houses, Black Jake Engine Company, Cat Stories, Engine Company 11, fire cat, Isaac Webb, Live Oak Engine Company, Lower East Side, Metropolitan Fire Department, New York History
In a recent post, I wrote about Ginger, a well-loved fire dog for Hook and Ladder Co. No. 5 of New York’s Metropolitan Fire Department. The following tale is also about Ginger, but this mascot was a fire cat for a historical fire company once called the Live Oak Engine Company. In 1894, an orange […]
