1893: The Tombs’ Black Cat That Befriended Prisoners on Murderers’ Row » The Tombs
In August 2012, while completing construction of the Collect Pond park, New York City Parks Department workers stumbled upon a strange series of stone walls buried beneath the site. It was the foundation and perimeter wall of the second Tombs prison built in 1902.
Old foundation of the Tombs prison, New York
