Miss Clementine Anderson and Miss Mary J. Anderson were two wealthy, educated, and refined “spinsters” who turned the Poverty Hollow neighborhood around Broome and Pitt Streets on the Lower East Side into a paradise for cats.
Posts Tagged ‘Lower East Side’
1894: The International Alley Cats of Poverty Hollow at Pitt Street and Broome Street
Posted: 28th February 2021 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat LadiesTags: Cats of Old New York, Delancey Farm, John R. Livingston, Lower East Side, Mount Pitt, New York City History, Pitt Street, Poverty Hollow
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1900: Isaac, the Bank Cat of Grand Street Who Stopped an Attempted Cat Burglar
Posted: 21st November 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Ajax Whitman, Cats of Old New York, Louis Scharlach, Lower East Side, New York City History
Don’t mess with Isaac the bank cat. And don’t even think about coming in and stealing his territory–or the cash, for that matter. That was the message a “gaunt hobo cat” received when he sauntered into the Louis Scharlach & Co. bank at 362 Grand Street on the Lower East Side on November 14, 1900. […]
1879: Spitz and the Coin-Laden Cats and Dogs on East Broadway in the Lower East Side
Posted: 22nd August 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: 101 East Broadway, Cats of Old New York, Hendrick Rutgers, Henry Rutgers, Jane McAdam, Lower East Side, New York City History, William B. Crosby
Jane McAdam’s two dogs and nine cats depended on her to feed them and provide water every day. That’s why she was determined to ensure their care when she was sentenced to prison for six months in February 1879.
1914 and 1930: The New York City Cats and Goats That Butchered the Butcher Shop on James Street
Posted: 31st August 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Cat StoriesTags: Cat Stories, Ignatz Sethmeier, James Street, Lower East Side, New York City History, Oak Street Police Station, Old New York
Prelude to the 1914 Cat Attack In the early morning hours of November 4, 1911, a bomb went off in front of a butcher shop and coffee saloon on the northwest corner of James Street and Oak Street in New York City’s Lower East Side. The explosion could be heard two blocks away at the […]
1911: Buster, Topsy, and Yaller, the Police Mascots of NYC’s Lower East Side, Part 1
Posted: 3rd March 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Cat MascotsTags: Cat Stories, Lower East Side, New York History, NYPD, police cats, police mascots
Part I: Buster and Topsy, the Rival Police Cat Mascots On the evening of December 6, 1911, the men of the old Eldridge Street police precinct in New York City’s Lower East Side moved into the brand-new station house occupied by the men of the old Delancey Street precinct. The large modern building at the corner of Clinton and […]
