Posts Tagged ‘New York City History’

On the night before he was hung for the murder of one of his two wives, Edward Reinhardt spent time smoking cigars and petting the three cats that lived with him in his prison cell at the Richmond County Jail.

In 1908, a member of Old New York’s most aristocratic families was evicted from a ramshackle mansion on East 83rd Street in Yorkville, where she had been barely surviving with her 15 dogs and 8 cats. @Bideawee

In December 1897-1899, Wanamaker’s Department Store on Broadway and 9th Street lured shoppers with a “bargain cat day,” in which Angora cats were sold as Christmas gifts for $10 to $40 each, depending on the cat’s color, size, and age.

Two weeks after the body of an unidentified woman was discovered in a Connecticut pond, a cat found the murder weapon in the NYC apartment where the woman had been killed.

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. […]