For the policemen of Manhattan’s Leonard Street Station, doing strike duty in Brooklyn meant spending a lot of time riding on the trolley cars looking for trouble. It was during this week that they “adopted” a big, brown, shaggy dog who would change their lives for the better. They named him Strike.
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1899: Strike, the Heroic Eighth Precinct Police Dog of New York City’s Tribeca
Posted: 31st August 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Mascots, Dog TailsTags: Brooklyn Rapid Transit strike, Eighth Precinct, Leonard Lispenard, Leonard Street Station, Lispenard's Meadows, New York History, Old New York
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