Carrie Brown : Murder In The East River Hotel

Once bitten, twice shy.....so I'm just going to guess that this would be a likely spot for the hotel.
The star is first site I guessed it would be....

The two lines designate what I believe to be Catherine Slip.  It was James Street, Oliver Street, and then Catherine Slip

The arrow above the proposed site

That's good work, Howard. I have to look at it more closely tomorrow but I know that Newyorkontrial.com had the sketch of the Hotel with the Round Roofed building in the foreground. I see one such building in the right place on the opposite corner.

Do you think it's behind the whitish building, almost completely obscured except for maybe the awning? Corner of the roof maybe?

https://www.newyorkontrial.com/past-events

I meant this one directly across from the East River Hotel.

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So was the East River Hotel whitish? I never pictured it white.

The sketch on your webpage does indicate whiteness.

And would that then be the white side facing the River? The next unit set further back? So the awning can go around the that other corner again?

I meant this one directly across from the East River Hotel.

I've read one description of the hotel's brickwork as being yellowish.
The building you're pointing out would be on the southeast corner of Catherine Slip. It doesn't seem to be in view.
The sketch on CB Net does seem to indicate whiteness but that's a financial decision on the sketch artist's editors part ( a man named Murray for the New York Press newspaper) to use the inexpensive white over the more expensive yellow colorization.  NY newspapers in 1891 didn't colorize artistic renditions.

Our concern should be on a building in the position as I've pointed out....on the southwest corner of Catherine Slip.  All else is really irrelevant.

The shadows show you the shape of the adjoined units.

Arrows point down Catherine Slip.. the building next to the site where the Hotel once stood had yet to be razed.

Yungstreet:

Disregard the previous post I had made and have now deleted.....those two photos were not of the former site. The post I entered prior to YOUR last post is correct...the one I added after your last post wasn't.


All three of these have something in common....the 4 story building.

In this official photo, the little building is labeled 11 Catherine Slip which was diagonal from 14-16 Catherine Slip.

The two photos I posted in the previous post after  your last post were listed in such a way as to infer that it was as I posted.....but no matter...it was incorrect.

Here are the three photos together. The one with the man standing in the middle of Water Street is that 'official' photo. He is  actually standing on the corner of Catherine Slip in the exact spot of the former hotel.

Sorry for the confusion.

I got it now: the "Restaurant" was on the site of the East River Hotel. It wasn't the "Bar and Grill" that looks similar but is kiddy-corner to the Restaurant.

Bingo, gringo. You've got it...