Chinatown, White Street Between Baxter and Centre Streets

Mary Sargent © 2008 …………………………………….. click to enlarge

This block, which has been turned into a pedestrian way, is named both White Street and John J. Clavin Place. Google had nothing to say about Clavin Place or John J. Clavin, and wondered if I meant to say Calvin.

It runs between the two buildings which make up the Manhattan Detention Complex, popularly called The Tombs, and for five years named the Bernard B. Kerik Complex. Mayor Bloomberg had Kerik's name stripped from the buildings the day after he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors involving shady money dealings. A visitor to the jail was quoted in the New York Times as saying, "No jail needs to be named after a crook." The article goes on to mention other New York places named for bad guys.

Connecting the two buildings is the walkway we see in the photo above. Seems to be a lot of traffic. I am standing on Baxter Street looking toward Centre and the late afternoon sun.



Mary Sargent © 2008 …………………………………….. click to enlarge

Now we're looking back toward Baxter Street with the Whiskey Tavern dead ahead.


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