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Tombs
nickname
the Manhattan Detention Complex or city jail US, 1840
Named when built in the mid-C19 because it was modelled on an Egyptian-style mausoleum. The present facility bears no resemblance to the original structure but still carries the sobriquet.- Mike and I hired a good lawyer for Mackey, and went down to see him in the Tombs. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 267, 1946
- As they flung him into the car, Angel said, “There’s plenty of rooms in the Tombs.” — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 139, 1952
- I was taken to the Tombs, mugged and fingerprinted. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 39, 1953
- I had big manila enevelope ready for for Tombs Incarceration, including Buddhist Bible of Goddard[.] — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, p. 458, 1 January 1955
- Geo spent three months in the Tombs and when I met him he was still on probation. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 107, 1960
- After I’d moved, Reno got busted, and he was in the Tombs. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, pp. 167–168, 1965
- He’d earned his name from having kicked the habit cold-turkey a few times running in the Tombs City Prison. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 201, 1967
- It was in the Tombs that I kicked the hardest habit that I’d ever kicked cold turkey in my life. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 126, 1973
- Poor jerk in the Tombs. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 61, 1977
- We were dismissed from the courtroom, returned inside and, after a short wait, were sent downstairs to be admitted to the Tombs[.] — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 164, 1980
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