Posts Tagged ‘Old New York’

On October 27, 1893, thousands of people gathered on East 18th Street near Gramercy Park for what may – or may not – have been a well-orchestrated publicity stunt for a traveling menagerie. Apparently, a giant circus lion named Wallace had escaped his cage inside the small, 12×20 stable at 129 East 18th Street and was eating a prized trotter horse that he had killed. Today, we know 129 East 18th Street as the site of Pete’s Tavern, the oldest continuously operating restaurant and bar in New York City.

Jeff and Major were two very large Irish terriers owned by Frederick Trevor Hill, a well-to-do attorney on Wall Street and a prolific author of novels about politics and the law. The dogs were trained as police dogs. On February 20, 1925, the two Irish terriers came to the rescue of Mary Elizabeth Donnet, a […]

On October 7, 1897, a ceremonial demonstration took place at the General Post Office to celebrate the new pneumatic tube system. Demonstration canisters carried a peach, a suit of clothes, and a live cat in a cotton sack

My first Hatching Cat post, about a large Angora cat from Paris who loved sitting on eggs and being surrounded by the baby chicks she helped to hatch.