Posts Tagged ‘New York City History’

1905: The Elephants That Escaped the Ruhe Wild Animal Farm in Woodside, Queens

Posted: 1st March 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Elephant Tales
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Woodside has been uncomfortable ever since the wild animal farm, as it is known locally, was opened about a year ago. Every woman in the place has predicted that the animals would escape some dark, cold night and wipe out the town, devouring buildings and inhabitants. These predictions came near becoming true on Monday night… […]

1842: The Pig That Dug Up a Pot of Gold in Sunnyside, Queens

Posted: 19th February 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories
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…But for the investigating nose of the old sow it would have remained there this day…Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 16, 1888 How many more pots of gold are buried around the same old premises the tourist does not really know, finding pots of gold not being his vocation.–Newtown Register, August 19, 1886 In my last […]

1940: Strato Lizzie, the Mascot Cat of the TWA Pilots at NYC’s LaGuardia Airport

Posted: 12th February 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Stories
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Once upon a time–around 1638–a farmer named Hendrick Harmensen took his cows from New Amsterdam and re-settled on a point of land along the Bowery Bay, where the East River and Flushing Bay meet on the northern tip of what we now call East Elmhurst, Queens. For several years, Harmensen–also known as Henrick the Boor […]

1912: Captain, the New York City Feline Mascot of the RMS Carpathia

Posted: 3rd February 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Stories
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On April 11, 1912, the RMS Carpathia departed from Chelsea Piers in New York City for Fiume (present-day Rijeka, Croatia), carrying about 740 passengers. The ship never reached its destination on this particular departure. Just after midnight on April 15, 1912, Carpathia‘s wireless operator, Harold Cottam, received some messages from Cape Cod stating they had private traffic for the Titanic. […]

1920: Kelly and Buddy, the Dogs Who Saved Their Family at Brooklyn’s Bath Beach Hotel

Posted: 27th January 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Heroes
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People often ask me how I find my stories. Most of my animal tales come from old newspaper articles followed by a lot of research. For this story set in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, there was also a large dose of coincidence. While I was doing research for my last story about the mascot cat of […]

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