This minimum-security prison across 110th Street from Central Park has in recent years been home to Malcolm X assassin Thomas Hagan and disgraced former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski (he of the $6,000 shower curtain and the vodka-urinating ice sculpture of Michelangelo's David).
Constructed in 1914, today's prison was originally the headquarters of the Young Women's Hebrew Association, serving as a dormitory and education center. (The roof, now caged, featured a garden in those days.) Presaging its current role as a place of involuntary confinement, the building saw later use as Army housing and as a school. In both cases, like today, it was surely filled with inmates dreaming of their eventual freedom.
Day 800
Lincoln Correctional Facility
March 9th, 2014
never knew their was an actual prison in manhattan…fitting though as manhattan has enough criminals- especially in suits to require one!
Looks like they cool that entire building with one window unit. :-)
Nice location across from the park, people in private residences are paying small fortunes for the location, location, location. Yoko still at the Dakota?
When I’m in the park and take pics of the Harlem Meer this building is often in my shots, but I never knew it is a prison. You really learn something new each day, thanks Matt!
How stupid are u to not knoe you was blind to the corrections vans they say NYC correctional :(( right in front of the building was u blind to the roof caged up smh