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Nooks & corners of old New York (1899)

Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : Charles Scribner's sons · leaf 57

An illustration from Nooks & corners of old New York, 1899, leaf 57
heavy club dashed out brains. The Five Points House of Industryswork was begun in 1850, and has beensuccessful in ameliorating the moral andphysical condition of the people of thevicinity. The institution devoted tothis work stands on the site of the OldBrewery, the most notorious criminalresort of… … St. wilh CHURCH «f the TRANSFIGURATION OF OLD NEW YORK in 1797. In 1810 it was changed toZion Episcopal Church. It was burnedin 1815; rebuilt 1819, and sold in 1853to the Church of the Transfiguration,which has occupied it since. This lastchurch had previously been in Cham-bers Street, and before…

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