(NEW YORK CITY) Manuscript log of the 14th Precinct of the N

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(NEW YORK CITY.) Manuscript log of the 14th Precinct of the New York Police Department. [482] manuscript pages in red and blue ink. Folio, disbound, with original worn 1/2 calf boards; contents are clean and bright. New York, 12 May to 8 June 1898

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The log features criminal complaints, reports on medical emergencies, missing children, decisions on internal disciplinary cases, and much more from this predominantly Jewish immigrant neighborhood. The crimes range from suicides to street-corner brawls to illegal pushcarts to one young man charged with "breaking complainant's soda water fountain . . . having been skylarking with some other young men" (25 May 1898). The precinct was bordered approximately by 12th Street to the north, Avenue B and Clinton Street to the west, Delancey Street to the south, and the river to the east--the eastern part of the Lower East Side, much of it known as the East Village today.