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Singerman ID#supp2264

Our Police Protectors: History of the New York Police from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Published for the Benefit of the Police Pension Fund. 2d ed. Illustrated with over Two Hundred Choice Engravings.

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Singerman ID#supp2264

Costello, Augustine F. Our Police Protectors: History of the New York Police from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Published for the Benefit of the Police Pension Fund. 2d ed. Illustrated with over Two Hundred Choice Engravings. New York: The author, 1885 [c1884]. xix, 572 p., [108] p. of adv.

Notes

See, principally, chap. 15, "First Inspection District," for the different police precincts with references to the predominantly Jewish neighborhoods. The "Dutch Mob," including "Sheeney Mike," is mentioned on p. 324; see p. 369 for the murder of Benjamin Nathan; for a view of Mount Sinai Hospital, see p. 514.