Weighing 20 pounds and standing about one foot tall, Susie was a jumbo cat. She was also the terror of the rats on the Kerr Steamship Company pier at the foot of 57th Street in the Bay Ridge section (now called Sunset Park) of Brooklyn. Susie would often kill up to 10 rats in a week; her record was eight rats in four hours.
Posts Tagged ‘New York History’
1901: Harry, the Blue-Ribbon Police Horse of Prospect Park
Posted: 2nd September 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Horse TalesTags: Brooklyn, Mounted Police, New York History, Parade Grounds, Patrolman Henry T. Hilton, Prospect Park Police, Riding and Driving Club of Brooklyn
Harry was a wonderful horse who served with the Prospect Park Police from 1893 to 1901 and who won several blue ribbons at the annual Brooklyn Horse Show.
1919 and 1922: Bulb, the Bad-Luck Police Horse of the NYPD Mounted Police
Posted: 14th August 2013 by The Hatching Cat in FDNY Horses/Mascots, Horse TalesTags: 73rd Precinct, Christopher J Tierney, Flatbush Avenue, Frank J Mace, Kings Highway, Mounted Unit, New York History, NYPD, Police horse
NYPD Mounted Police Heroes, Part I Since 1871, the year that the Board of Police established the first official Mounted Police Unit in New York City, more than a dozen mounted patrolmen have been killed in the line of duty in horse-related incidents. Most of these men died after being violently thrown from their horses […]
