Day 26

Long Island City Courthouse

January 25th, 2012



This is where, in response to a reporter asking him why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton apocryphally uttered the famous line: "Because that's where the money is."

Sutton claims this exchange never took place, but does answer the question in his autobiography:

"Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all."


3 Comments

  1. tna says:

    That’s very impressive. I do wonder what the green roof is covering at the top of the building. To look at the building I would never imagine it had once been gutted by fire.

  2. Joisy jeff says:

    I have a bag of chips….but they taste more potatoey then Money….

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