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« Reply #15 on: November 05, 2022, 12:08:30 pm »
Excise license for 13 Catherine Slip...directly across the street from the Hotel.

The Hotel couldn't get a license for its numerous violations.

The name to whom this was issued is Michael but I can't figure out the surname.




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« Reply #16 on: November 05, 2022, 12:37:39 pm »
According to the New York source I used, the house on the far right is 41 Oliver.
I believe the house behind the car with the overhang is 49 Oliver, which was Mary Harrington's place in April 1891.

Better shot in the photo at bottom....with the window at the base of the building....all from the early 1940's or late 1930's.






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« Reply #17 on: November 05, 2022, 12:53:38 pm »
Oak Street Police Station  : 9 Oak Street ( early 20th Century) and one from the 1930's-1940's





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« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2022, 04:21:35 pm »
From the Jack Falat Collection...

Photo of a John R. Lee paving crew at work in Paterson, N.J.
Date unknown, circa 1900


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« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2022, 05:41:39 pm »
Edwin Borchard, author of the 1932 book, Convicting The Innocent.

His article on the presumed innocence of Ameer Ben Ali, based on his 1902 release, may not have been true.
A case where he was definitely wrong :
In 1911, seven year old Annie Lemberger was killed in Madison Wisconsin. This became the second most written of child homicide in 20th century America. Only the Lindbergh kidnapping generated more interest.

Annie was either killed by her father in a drunken rage or by her neighbor John A, (Dogskin) Johnson, a **** and all round ne'er do well. Mr. Johnson was convicted but released after ten years when the blame was shifted to her father.

Johnson was among Edwin Borchard's original innocents but 80 years later his guilt was proven definitively in a book called "Crime of Magnitude."

After correspondence with the on going Innocence Project, they agreed to strike Mr. Johnson's name from the innocent.

PDF of the book
https://archive.org/details/convictinginnoce0000borc





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« Reply #20 on: November 13, 2022, 07:23:52 am »
The Hotel Metropole....147 West 43rd Street

Emile Sultan, who served as an interpreter in the case, worked here as a cigar vendor.  Actor William Thompson heard the details said to have been shared by Ali with Sultan regarding
Ali going into Room 31 but only to burgle or rummage through the death room and shared them with a Buffalo newspaper in 1902.  No other newspaper contained the story.


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« Reply #21 on: November 13, 2022, 01:50:37 pm »
Screen shot of a scrapbook which was shown within the 2013 Mysteries At The Museum program, Jack The Ripper In New York.

It isn't an official dossier but just a scrapbook which I believe was once in the possession of a prosecution attorney.  Site member Bob Anderson is featured on that program.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-_7jEmKRE8&ab_channel=CarrieBrown.Net

Full episode :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H7rmOBR1lQ&ab_channel=CarrieBrown.Net




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« Reply #22 on: November 19, 2022, 07:32:07 am »
The NY World, The NY Tribune, and The New York Times buildings, Park Row, Manhattan
The fellow who shared this ink originally listed the NY Sun along with the other three outfits, but the NY Sun was on Nassau Street.




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« Reply #23 on: November 19, 2022, 05:17:08 pm »
Photo by Jacob Riis ( circa 1890 )....Lower East Side saloon


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« Reply #24 on: December 31, 2022, 10:44:44 pm »
Jacob Riis' office was located at 301 Mulberry Street....directly across the street from 300 Mulberry, Inspector Byrnes' HQ.


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« Reply #25 on: January 08, 2023, 06:23:39 pm »
Technically, not a photograph.....

Coroner Inquest May 1891


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« Reply #26 on: January 11, 2023, 06:56:03 pm »
Unrelated for the most part to the Brown Murder but a site which deserves a look.


New York City has a long and sprawling history, but looking at the city today, it's hard to tell what it looked like in the past. Luckily, an enterprising coder has solved that problem by creating a Google Street View map for New York City for the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Developer Dan Vanderkam collaborated with the New York Public Library to plot all the old photos from the Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s collection on an interactive map.

The project, called OldNYC, lets you browse 19th-century New York as easily as you would click around on Google Maps. The collection contains over 80,000 original photographs.

Visit the OldNYC site here, or look below for some of the best photos we saw from the late 1800s and early 1900s, marked with their locations in the city.

https://www.oldnyc.org/


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« Reply #27 on: January 17, 2023, 08:05:22 pm »
Vintage New York : Photos From The 1870s To The 1910s

https://www.history101.nyc/new-york-city-in-the-1870s

At the bottom of each page is a link to the subsequent decade.



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« Reply #28 on: January 21, 2023, 06:45:11 am »
Greetings from Sing Sing Prison




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« Reply #29 on: February 12, 2023, 12:23:23 pm »
To the left, Jersey City....body of water is the Hudson River....and the street at right is West Street, close to the pier that took one to New Jersey.
From 1910

Sign at lower right advertising for Bull Durham, a cigarette tobacco and cigarette brand.

One thing I've noticed having been in all five of the major East Coast cities ( NYC, Philly, Boston, Baltimore and Washington) is that of the five, New York has a number of remarkably wide streets. Almost as if it was envisioned that the city would grow to the size it eventually would.

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