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The Tombs is the colloquial name for the Manhattan Detention Complex (formerly the Bernard B. Kerik Complex), a municipal jail in Lower Manhattan at 125 White Street, and also the nickname for three previous city-run jails in the former Five Points neighborhood of lower Manhattan, an area now known as the Civic Center. The original Tombs was officially known as the Halls of Justice, built in 1838 in the Egyptian Revival architectural style. It was a replacement for the Colonial-era Bridewell Prison located in City Hall Park, built in 1735 and demolished in 1838. The new structure incorporated material, mainly granite, from the Bridewell to save money. The four buildings known as The Tombs were: * 1838–1902, New York City Halls of Justice and House of Detention * 1902–1941, City Prison * 1941–1974, Manhattan House of Detention * 1983–present, Manhattan Detention Complex (known as the Bernard B. Kerik Complex from 2001 to 2006) (en)

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An Egyptian-Revival-style building on a street corner, with doric columns on its façade and a large flag flying atop a mast. Pedestrians are seen navigating two horse-drawn trams, which travel on lines that bisect intersecting streets. (en)
An Egyptian-Revival-style building on a street corner; there are doric columns on the façade to the right of the image. There are men on the street, and work is being done using cranes, on an adjacent building out of frame to the right. (en)
An etching of a man and a woman being married in a jail cell. Sunlight streams in through a small window. (en)

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The Bridge of Sighs (en)
The "Bridge of Sighs" connecting the 1902 Tombs prison at left with the 1894 Manhattan Criminal Courts building, looking west from Centre Street (en)
Artist's depiction of the wedding of John C. Colt in The Tombs, 1842 (en)
Harry Kendall Thaw in his cell, 1912 (en)
Manhattan Detention Complex, built in 1989 (en)
The building photographed in 1893 (en)
The original Egyptian-Revival-style Tombs building in an engraving from 1870. Leonard Street, left. Centre Street, right. (en)
New York City Criminal Courts Building, 100 Centre Street (en)

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Commissioner Joseph Ponte (en)

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Halls of Justice, Manhattan House of Detention (en)

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Columbus Park - ChinaTown - New York - USA - panoramio.jpg (en)
Bridge of Sighs, Tombs Prison.jpg (en)
ColtWedding.jpg (en)
Thaw in jail.tiff (en)
The Tombs-built 1902.jpg (en)
Criminal Courts, New York City, Valentine's Manual .jpg (en)
pg501 THE TOMBS. THE PLACE OF DETENTION FOR CRIMINALS AWAITING TRIAL .jpg (en)

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The Tombs is the colloquial name for the Manhattan Detention Complex (formerly the Bernard B. Kerik Complex), a municipal jail in Lower Manhattan at 125 White Street, and also the nickname for three previous city-run jails in the former Five Points neighborhood of lower Manhattan, an area now known as the Civic Center. The four buildings known as The Tombs were: (en)

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