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City Prison (1902)
City Prison (1902)

Manhattan: Leonard Street - Lafayette Street

Leonard Street, east from Lafayette to Baxter Streets, and showing on the north side of same, the Tombs and a cleared area divided by Centre Street. Beyond this new Criminal Courts (and prison)
ldg. site is Columbus Park.
The Church spire seen is that atop the Transfiguration Roman Catholic Church in Chiratown and located at the N.W. corner of Mott
and Park Streets.
July 4, 1938.
P. L. Sperr

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