Posts Tagged ‘NYC History’

1898: General Weyler and the New York City Army Cats at 39 Whitehall Street

Posted: 27th April 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Working Cats
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In Old New York, most warehouses and other large buildings in Lower Manhattan were infested with mice and rats (many still are, of course). Despite its military affiliation, the U.S. Army Building was not immune to the enemy vermin. The best soldiers cut out for the job of extermination were the Army cats.

1886: The Cat Farm at “The Ship” on NYC’s Hamilton Street

Posted: 30th November 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories
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Mary Miner was a proverbial crazy cat lady who lived with about 50 cats in a small, dingy room on Hamilton Street. The room was one of many in a ramshackle tenement called The Ship, a building on the Lower East Side with an interesting history dating back to the 1700s.

241 Bowery: The Photo-Bombing Flophouse Cat of the Sunshine Hotel

Posted: 21st October 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Horse Tales
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The cat of the Sunshine Hotel is not a cat of Old New York. But the building where this resident mouser made his home in the 1990s, 241 Bowery, has an interesting history dating back to the 1830s with ties to much larger animals and old-time Bowery characters with names like Beefsteak John and Chick Tricker.

Dog Days of Gotham: Free Virtual Talk With Jane’s Walk NYC

Posted: 20th April 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, Virtual Events
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On Saturday, May 7, I will be leading a virtual presentation for the Municipal Art Society of New York called “The Dog Days of Gotham.” The presentation will be one of hundreds of virtual and guided tours that will take place the weekend of May 6-8 as part of Jane’s Walk NYC. Registration for this free event is required.