Check Out Some Of The 30,000 Old NYC Crime Scene Photos To Be Digitized This Year

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A streetcar jumps the tracks on Nostrand and Putnam, 1931

Photo courtesy of the Municipal Archives

Cincenzo Argo, shot in front of 35 Thompson Street, 1925.

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Homemade booze machine raid in Brooklyn, 1927.

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NYPD burning books in 1935... IN THEIR FURNACE ROOM!

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Dominick Didato on Elizabeth Street, 1936

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The bed of Virginia Bender of the Bronx, found dead from strangulation and a stab wound in 1939.

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Gun, shank, brass knuckles all in one. 1939.

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A pipe bomb goes off in Penn Station, 1955.

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Columbia University protest, 1968

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Communist rally at MSG, 1938.

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