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Broadway above Columbus Circle (at Fifty-ninth Street) was known as the Boulevard.
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This notorious New York prison sits on the banks of the Hudson River 30 miles north of New York City. The slang term “sent up the river,” meaning sent to prison, originated with Sing Sing.
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A potter’s field is a graveyard for the poor, unknown, and criminals. In the 1890s unidentified persons were buried on Hart’s Island, in Long Island Sound.