From “Boorstein’s Out & About in NYC”… page 41…

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… Ah yes... the famously infamous St. Bernice Workhouse For Wayward, Willful, and Woebegone Children. Opened in 1831 and referenced loosely by Ebenezer Scrooge in A CHRISTMAS CAROL, it was a place where society dumped their unwanted offspring for discipline, prayer, hard labor, gruel, stale crackers, and soiled underpants. It was converted into luxury duplexes for the mega-rich under Rudy Giuliani some time in the 90s.

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