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1886: The Cat Farm at “The Ship” on NYC’s Hamilton Street

Posted: 30th November 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories
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Mary Miner was a proverbial crazy cat lady who lived with about 50 cats in a small, dingy room on Hamilton Street. The room was one of many in a ramshackle tenement called The Ship, a building on the Lower East Side with an interesting history dating back to the 1700s.