Once upon a time–around 1638–a farmer named Hendrick Harmensen took his cows from New Amsterdam and re-settled on a point of land along the Bowery Bay, where the East River and Flushing Bay meet on the northern tip of what we now call East Elmhurst, Queens. For several years, Harmensen–also known as Henrick the Boor […]
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1930: The Carrier Pigeons That Led the NYPD Air Services on a Wild Goose Chase
Posted: 1st November 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Birds and PigeonsTags: carrier pigeons, Glenn H. Curtiss, New York History, NYPD Air Services, NYPD Aviation, Otto Kafka, Queens, Rodman Wanamaker, Savoia-Marchetti S-56
Long before there was Morse code, wireless telegraphy, radio, TV, e-mail, wifi, and smart phones, there were homing pigeons, aka carrier pigeons or messenger pigeons. Carrier pigeons have been prized for their navigational abilities for thousands of years. Using “mental maps” and their remarkable abilities to find their way home, these carrier pigeons have been […]
