That girl you saw in the dormitory,” a matron of the Magdalen Benevolent Society explained to the reporter. “She is really the worst girl in the place. I wouldn’t trust her out of my sight.
Her parents haven’t much for her, “ she continued. “Their only worldly possessions are seven small children and a pushcart. Her sisters told me a woeful story of poverty.” In September of 1903 a seemingly routine real estate transaction transpired on the northern tip of Manhattan. Inwood resident Francis A. Thayer sold, to the New York Magdalen
Benevolent Society, a large tract of land on the northwestern end of
Dyckman Street overlooking the Hudson River. In September of 1903 a seemingly routine real estate transaction transpired on the northern tip of Manhattan.
