First Precinct Police Station
100 Old Slip | Financial District | built 1911
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- 1911
Hunt & Hunt's palazzo replaces an 1880s station house as First Precinct headquarters
An earlier station house, built in 1883-84 on the site of Franklin Market, drew scorn from the Real Estate Record for its looks. About 25 years later Hunt & Hunt designed its replacement, finished in 1911 after two years of work. It is a four-story Italian palazzo with limestone lower floors, a cornice trimmed in copper and a carved cartouche of the city seal above the entrance.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1919
First Precinct reserves hold back crowds when Staten Island ferry crews walk off the job
On July 18, 1919, as the workday ended, crews of the municipal ferryboats to Staten Island struck for higher pay. Thousands of commuters were stranded in the rain at the slips, and the crowd grew so quickly that reserves from the First Precinct were sent to manage it. Officers shouted advice to go around by Brooklyn or New Jersey, which only a few people took.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1928
Two First Precinct patrolmen make East River rescues within weeks of each other
On the night of May 15, 1928, Patrolman Edward M. Lee leaped off Coenties Slip into the East River to rescue a drowning man. The same day, Patrolman Ferdinand A. Berthold chased gunmen who had robbed a candy shop and arrested one of them. Within a month Berthold dived into the river off Old Slip and clung to a dock piling while holding up a semi-conscious 225-pound barge captain until the Emergency Squad lowered a rope ladder.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1973
Chief Inspector Codd orders "Close Old Slip" after a corruption scandal at the First Precinct
In 1973 Chief Inspector Michael J. Codd ordered the First Precinct's station house closed after 62 years of service. The move followed the discovery in 1972 of suspected bribe-taking from street vendors and construction contractors, and 97 of the precinct's 110 officers were transferred. The precinct relocated to the old Fourth Precinct house on Ericsson Place.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1993
The Landmarks Preservation Commission moves into the vacant station house
After the First Precinct left in 1973, the building stood empty for two decades. In 1993 it became headquarters of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which stayed about eight years. A renovation costing roughly $4 million then converted the building for use as a police museum.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 2002
The New York City Police Museum reopens in the old First Precinct house
The police museum, founded in 1999, moved to 100 Old Slip in January 2002 after a renovation costing more than $4 million that enlarged its exhibition space by almost 45 percent. It held a September 11 exhibit and a Hall of Heroes naming officers killed in the line of duty. Hurricane Sandy flooded the building in 2012, and the museum has since been without a permanent home.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Hunt & Hunt's 1911 1st Precinct -- 100 Old SlipDaytonian in Manhattan
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