The Bowling Green Cat Roundup “When darkness settled down last night over the territory encompassed by West Street and Broadway, Vesey Street and the Battery, and lights began to blink in the tenement quarters of Syrians, Turks, Hungarians and Russians, eerie dirges rose from pitchy backyards. There was a melancholia in the walls, a lost […]
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1896: Tige, the Newfoundland of Mount Loretto Orphanage for Boys in Staten Island, Part II
Posted: 13th May 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: Bennett Farm, Father Drumgoole, Father James Dougherty, Mount Loretto, New York History, Staten Island history, Tim Leahy
Tim and Tige lived and played on East 48th Street near First Avenue, pictured here in 1915. This neighborhood was razed to make way for the United Nations Plaza in 1948. NYPL Digital Collections When we left Part I of this Old New York dog tale, little Tim Leahy had just been separated from his […]
1896: Tige, the Newfoundland of the Mount Loretto Orphanage for Boys in Staten Island, Part I
Posted: 8th May 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: 400 East 48th Street, Father John Christopher Drumgoole, Julia Kelley, Mission of the Immaculate Virgin, Mount Loretto, New York History, Tim Leahy
Tim Leahy was only seven years old when his father died and his mother ran away and left him on his own. With no other living relatives in his homeland of Ireland, he was put on a ship and sent to live with a great aunt in New York City. Great Aunt Julia Kelley was […]
1906: Fred Sauter and His Stuffed Menagerie at 42 Bleecker Street, Part 1
Posted: 15th April 2017 by The Hatching Cat in Animal AttractionsTags: 42 Bleecker Street, Fred Sauter, New York History, Old New York, taxidermy
Fred Sauter did a thriving business stuffing deer, bears, lions, birds, monkeys, and even pet dogs and cats in his large warehouse at 42 Bleecker Street .
