On November 27, 1907, the very first train to go to Brooklyn via the new Battery-Joralemon Tunnel left the Wall Street station in Manhattan at 12:30 p.m. This train carried about 200 men, including officials of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, engineers, and reporters. Oh yeah, and a mixed-breed dog named Subway Nellie. In my […]
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1907: Subway Nellie, the Dog That Christened the IRT East River Subway Tunnel
Posted: 5th February 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Brooklyn Borough Hall, East River Tunnel, Interborough Rapid Transit, Joralemon-Battery Tunnel, New York City Subway, New York History, Subway Nellie
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1908: The Lion Cub That Lived at The Plaza Hotel With Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy
Posted: 18th January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, Feline MascotsTags: Animal Tales, General Daniel E. Sickles, lion cub, New York History, Plaza Hotel, Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy, The Plaza
Once upon a time – June 1908, to be exact – an eccentric pseudo-princess portrait painter named Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy came to New York City, where she lived at the Plaza Hotel with a menagerie of wild animals.
1895: Sport Hopper, the Fox Terrier That Left a Legacy for New York Pets
Posted: 10th January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, Hartsdale Pet CemeteryTags: Dog Tails, Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, Ida Mosher Hopper, New York History, Samuel Johnson, William DeWolf Hopper, Woodlawn Cemetery
I think it was Sport Hopper, the nine-month-old fox terrier of the Hopper household on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, whose much-publicized burial paved the way for the first pet cemetery in the United States.
