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New Gates Avenue court house

Beaux Arts style courthouse at 495 Gates Avenue, with three large arched windows on second floor; policeman standing before building at lower right. Building currently used as a Police Athletic...

New children's court building

Rendering of three-story, Federal-style building that apparently stood on Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn Heights.

Proposed court building

Rendering of court building at 283 Adams Street, subsequently rebuilt as a public high school; architect's name at lower right of recto: Henry V. Murphy. Caption: "Architect's sketch of proposed...

[Department of Health building in Williamsburg]

Art-deco style building at at 151 Maujer Street, probably soon after completion; cornice inscribed with large letters reading, "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CITY OF NEW YORK"; residential brick buildings...

Detention pen entrances

Two metal prison doors at right angles to each other in courthouse building on Adams Street and Myrtle Avenue (no longer extant) that also served as police station and prison.

Detention pens

Man in profile standing before metal prison door in courthouse building on Adams Street and Myrtle Avenue (no longer extant) that also served as police station and prison; African American female...

Interior of men's detention pen

Older man standing in profile against tiled wall in courthouse building on Adams Street and Myrtle Avenue (no longer extant) that also served as police station and prison; room otherwise bare...

Adams St. court & police station

View of brick building (no longer extant) with scaffold and four blocked up windows, seen from adjacent rooftop at Adams Street and Myrtle Avenue; used as court house, police station, and prison;...

[Workers and gas lamp]

Worker with hammer standing on column of ruined gas lamp; second worker with blow torch looking up at him; several men observing work in progress; arched portal of courthouse building (no longer...

[Workers clearing debris in front of court house building in Brooklyn Heights]

Three workers with shovels in small yard before brick building (no longer extant) with projecting entrance portal; sign on window behind workers reads, "F. H. La Guardia, Mayor / Dept. of...