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

… 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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From “Boorstein’s Out & About in NYC”... page 12...

… Ah, yes... the famously, infamous third story window where the Comtesse de l'Artichaut Puant last looked out at the departing figure of her young, handsome lover, Biff Lustica in the Fall of 1932. Her fortune manufacturing croquet wickets had finally been wiped out as the Great Depression worsened, and people found it less and less diverting to play lawn games. In despair, she invested what little she had left on her invention of linoleum croquet for indoor, night-time, and bad-weather croquet, but that too failed. She watched both her dreams and her lover vanish before her very eyes as he rounded the corner on East 10th And University Place, and, with a hoarse cry to the Heavens and a shaken fist, she threw herself to the pavement below. Interestingly, the police were only called because Mrs. Maria Abatangelo who lived below (windows shown in the photo thought the "awful Carrother children" were throwing watermelons off the roof again.

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