1926: The Last of the Bowling Green Cat Massacres in New York City’s “Little Syria,” Part II » Washington Street 1911

The new Bowling Green Neighborhood Association headquarters at 105-107 Washington Street replaced the two white-brick tenements pictured here in 1911. These buildings served as boarding houses for Irish immigrants and sailors in the 1860s and by Syrian immigrants in the 1890s.

The new Bowling Green Neighborhood Association headquarters at 105-107 Washington Street replaced the two white-brick tenements pictured here in 1911. These buildings served as boarding houses for Irish immigrants and sailors in the 1860s and by Syrian immigrants in the 1890s.

The new Bowling Green Neighborhood Association headquarters at 105-107 Washington Street replaced the two white-brick tenements pictured here in 1911. These buildings served as boarding houses for Irish immigrants and sailors in the 1860s and by Syrian immigrants in the 1890s.