1904-1932: Bertha, Patches, Minnie, and Other Holiday-Time Hero Cats of Old...
It’s time to celebrate some holiday-time hero cats who saved the lives of their humans and kittens in emergency situations. Here are just a few stories of hero cats from Brooklyn and New York...
View Article1893: A Christmas Tree for Puck, the Aristocratic Pug of NYC’s Rose Hill
There was much ado on Christmas Eve in the home of Mrs. Brewer, at 43 East 21st Street, and no trouble was spared in decking the towering Christmas tree with lots of candles and candies for her little...
View Article1890: Tom and Jerry and the Famous Trotters Who Went Sleigh Riding on Jerome...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the first snowfall of the season in New York City was marked by a race in horse-drawn sleighs. Trotters of wealthy captains of industry, railroad men, bankers,...
View Article1900: The Midtown Cat That Beat a Possum Wrangler of the Southern Railway
Once upon a time, a renowned employee for the Southern Railway lost a battle to a cat that had broken into his home on West 44th Street. This Southern gentlemen was a pro at catching possums, but he...
View Article1903: The Dog Bathhouse for High-Society Pups in Harlem
When James A. Hogg, a professional rat catcher by trade, opened his new dog bathhouse in Harlem in 1903, it attracted much attention from the press. Sure, there were by this time several hospitals for...
View Article1903, 1936: The Dog and Cat Mascots of FDNY Engine Company No. 65
In 1903, one of the most popular dog-and-cat dynamic duos of the FDNY were Dan and Nickie* of Engine Company No. 65. Forty years later, Chappy and Henry the pole-sliding cat were the canine and feline...
View Article1925: Dunder, the Carnegie Hill Cat Who Survived a Suicide and Inherited a...
Mrs. Elizabeth W. Berhm, a kindly widow of about 61 years old, had always devoted herself to animals. She was known in her Carnegie Hill neighborhood as the "cat woman" because her home was always open...
View Article1909: The Monkey in the Red Bathing Suit at Roche’s Beach in Far Rockaway
When Martin Ward, the attendant at Roche’s Beach Pavilion in Far Rockaway, Queens, found a tiny monkey in the bathing house, he brought him to the proprietor of the private beach resort. Edward Roche...
View Article1899: The First Professional Dog Walker of New York City
Approached by a curious reporter for the New York Times on a cold, wet day in January 1899, the young woman attracting so much attention on Fifth Avenue explained that she was getting paid by the...
View Article1897: Dan, the Lifesaving Fire Horse, and Dick, his pal, of Engine 4 at Old Slip
When FDNY veteran Martin Cook received his promotion to captain of Engine 4 in 1886, the company received two horses, Dan and Dick. Even as the two horses aged, they did the city and the FDNY proud....
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