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- 68 rms riv view
- NY househunting for AR felons
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by Mia T
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- In my view, "Newgate" would be the perfect home for the clintons.
- Erected in rural country ("pleasant, airy, and salubrious," as Thomas Eddy called the site in his 1801 book), Newgate was located about two miles above City Hall in what is now Greenwich Village. (Selling point: Hillary-as-Giuliani-irritant is inversely proportional to distance of clinton abode from City Hall.) Construction was begun in the summer of 1796 and finished in late 1797.
- On four acres overlooking the Hudson River, the Doric-style building was of two stories with a cupola, surrounded by a stone wall ranging from 14 to 23 feet high. It contained 54 12-by-18-foot rooms designed for eight persons each; there were also 14 solitary cells, eight feet by six feet and 14-foot high, with windows eight feet from the floor, for a total capacity of 446 occupants. A large room for a chapel was set aside, as were living quarters for the keeper and his family. Another two-story building of brick, 200 feet long by 20 feet wide, contained the work-shops. There was also a garden "in excellent order," as Eddy wrote. 'The entire cost of the grounds, buildings, and a wharf on the river-front was $208,846. The first "residents" arrived Nov.28, 1797.
- Caveat emptor!
- The clintons would be wrong to automatically equate the creepingly leftist location and incipiently leftist penal code of New York's first state prison with suitability.
- Although Newgate was the embodiment of a new, "more enlightened" penal code--prior to Newgate, 16 crimes were punishable by death in New York, including murder, rape, robbery, treason, burglary, the taking of goods from a church, forgery and counterfeiting--it must be emphasized that treason and murder were retained as capital offenses as were all other felonies, if committed a second time.
- Truth-in-advertising compels me to disclose that Newgate no longer exists. But this small detail should pose absolutely no problem for the clintons and their promiscuous campaigns, all of which being, after all, mock documentaries about non-entities, the paradoxical personification of nothingness.
- 68 rms riv view
- Up the River Means Downwardly Mobile
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by Mia T
- Are you ready to SING, SING, SING
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--doug from upland - Sing-Sing and the clintons would be a great fit, Newgate notwithstanding. Imagine the two grim, oranged-suited, arrogant mobsters, marching in silent lockstep, their proximity to the infamous death house and the electric chair causing them quotidian night sweats, (If it's good enough for Ricky Ray Rector. . .). Imagine their fear, their subjugation to overbearing authority (If it's good enough for Billy Dale. . .) All the stuff of Sing-Sing legend. . .
- Sing-Sing (much like the clintons, themselves) was conceived as a profit-making if exploitive enterprise. It was located on the Silver Mine Farm, an abandoned 130-acre mining site on the banks of the Hudson River precisely because of its rich quarry which provided materials for the construction of the prison (built with prisoner labor) and future sales.
- Sing-Sing and the clintons would be a great fit, Newgate notwithstanding. Imagine the two grim, oranged-suited, arrogant mobsters, marching in silent lockstep, their proximity to the infamous death house and the electric chair causing them quotidian night sweats, (If it's good enough for Ricky Ray Rector. . .). Imagine their fear, their subjugation to overbearing authority (If it's good enough for Billy Dale. . .) All the stuff of Sing-Sing legend. . .
The clintons, who have several decades of experience turning prisons into profit-making enterprises--(BLOOD TRAIL NEWS ARCHIVES)--not to mention copious experience in fraudulent mining ventures--( Zairean quid pro quo)--will feel right at home in Sing-Sing.
