"I tell the history of the city, in this case today Brooklyn Heights, through true cat stories from the late 1800s to the early 1900s," said Gavan before the tour began. Despite how fantastical some of the stories may seem, all of them were written about in newspapers long past.
For one, the famous Hotel St. George on Pineapple Street that was once patronized by America's most opulent guests, was also inhabited by a popular cat named Minnie who would go on to have 160 kittens.
Many of these stories can also be found in Gavan's book The Cat Men of Gotham, but this experience brings her storytelling right off the page and onto the streets.
The tour begins at Walt Whitman Park where participants gather and first meet Gavan, already being presented with a cat-patterned goodie bag.
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