The following cat tale of the Lower East Side is dedicated to my cat Romeow, who passed away after 16 years of life on July 21, 2014. On June 15, 1904, the General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board the side-wheel passenger boat […]
Posts Tagged ‘Lower East Side’
1904 and 1908: Holey and Gittel, the Cats with 10 Lives on the Lower East Side
Posted: 25th July 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the MewsTags: 163 East 4th Street, Cat Stories, dumbbell tenement, Lower East Side, New York History, Phillip Minthorne, Rose Kolb, SPCA
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1871: Rosalie Goodman, the Crazy Cat Lady of New York’s Lower East Side
Posted: 5th April 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Crazy Cat Ladies, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Stories, Crazy Cat Lady, Delancey Square, Lower East Side, New York History, Rosalie Goodman, Seward Park
Before there was a Seward Park on Essex Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there was a square block of old wooden houses and crumbling brick tenements where hundreds of immigrants and alley cats made their home.There once was a woman named Rosalie Goodman who lived in a dilapidated frame tenement house on […]
1907: Minnie, the Thanksgiving Cat of the Essex Market Police Court Prison
Posted: 15th November 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Stories, Essex Market Place, Essex Market Police Court, Lower East Side, Minnie Maddern Fiske, New York History, Thanksgiving
On Thanksgiving Day in 1907, all of the prisoners and felines at Essex Market received a big chicken dinner served by veteran matron, Mrs. R.R. Fitzgerald.
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 […]
