The Lincoln

84 Madison Street | Two Bridges | built 1900

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1. 1890

   Alexandre Finkle designs The Lincoln, a showy tenement, for developer Albert Stake

   Albert Stake bought two lots at 84 and 86 Madison Street in November 1889 and hired Alexandre I. Finkle to replace the old buildings with five-story flats. Number 84 opened in 1890 as the Lincoln, mixing Queen Anne and Renaissance Revival details, and a cornice that bore the building's name beneath a stars-and-stripes crest. Stake liked the result enough to order the same design at 104 Forsyth Street, renamed the Garfield.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

2. 1896

   January 24

   Police raid the Pelican Club, a gang, and arrest two Lincoln tenants

   During a January 1896 police crackdown on gangs, officers searched the Pelican Club, which billed itself as a political and social group but operated as a criminal gang, and found stolen goods in its rooms. Among those arrested were William Coleman and James Murphy, both residents of the Lincoln. Coleman had been picked up eight months earlier at age 17 for acting as lookout during a burglary on South Street.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

3. 1897

   July 18

   A tenant of the Lincoln is fined for kicking a stray cat near the docks

   Officer Keefe saw laborer John Nolan, who lived at 84 Madison Street, kick a stray cat at Catherine and South Streets on the night of July 18, 1897. Nolan told a judge the animal was mad and had attacked him, but the officer said he was drunk. The judge believed Keefe and fined Nolan $25, and since he could not pay it, Nolan faced ten days in the Tombs.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

4. 1898

   February 26

   A 12-year-old tells a policeman to stop a stone-throwing fight and is let off by a magistrate

   Louis Glassen, 12, told Policeman Lues on February 25, 1898 to go and stop a stone-throwing fight among boys on the block. When the officer said he was watching, the boy asked whether that was what he was paid for, and Lues arrested him for disorderly conduct. At Essex Market Court the next day, Magistrate Meade told him not to bother the police, said he was too young, and discharged him.

   Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

Further reading

• The 1890 The Lincoln - 84 Madison StreetDaytonian in Manhattan

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