48th Police Precinct Station

1925 Bathgate Avenue | Tremont | built 1901

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1901
The 48th Precinct station house is completed on Bathgate Avenue
The station house at 1925 Bathgate Avenue was completed in 1901. It stands alone on its lot as a rectangular block three stories high and seven bays across. Its yellow brick fronts carry stone trim in the Italian Renaissance Revival style.
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1912
Police Lieutenant Charles Becker is arrested here for the murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal
In 1912 New York police lieutenant Charles Becker was taken into custody at the 48th Precinct station on Bathgate Avenue. The charge against him was the murder of Herman Rosenthal, a gambler. The station house had been completed eleven years earlier, in 1901.
“Police Lieutenant Charles Becker was arrested there for the murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal in 1912.”
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1983
The former station house joins the National Register of Historic Places
The New York Police Department stopped using the building as a station house in the 1970s. In 1983 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. By June 2010 the old precinct house had a new tenant, the Sharon Baptist Head Start program.
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