94th Precinct station house
100 Meserole Avenue | also 90 Meserole Avenue | Greenpoint | built 1931
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1920
Police Commissioner Enright decides to move the Greenpoint station-house to Meserole and Lorimer
A 1920 report called the old Greenpoint station-house and jail at 145 Greenpoint Avenue one of the worst in the borough. In October of that year Police Commissioner Richard Enright chose to sell that site and build a new station-house at Meserole and Lorimer, where the 94th Precinct still stands. The project went out to bid in 1923 at a cost of $200,000.
Source: nypdhistory.com
- 1924
Commissioner Enright opens the new Greenpoint station-house with a parade
On September 18, 1924, Police Commissioner Enright presided over the opening of the new Greenpoint station-house, designated the 51-A Precinct, with a parade and a dedication ceremony. The old Herbert Street station-house at 43 Herbert Street closed at 10:00 am the same day, and its area partly passed to the new precinct. Its roster counted one patrolwoman, sixty-three patrolmen, ten sergeants, four lieutenants and a captain.
Source: nypdhistory.com
- 1929
The Meserole Avenue precinct takes the number 94, which it still has
Greenpoint's precinct was renumbered several times: the 61st in 1899, the 161st in 1914, the 105th in 1924 and finally the 94th in 1929. The 94th Precinct still works from the Meserole and Lorimer station-house that opened in 1924.
Source: nypdhistory.com
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