Submitted by Benjamin Feldman, Sep 29, 2007 07:59

For a fascinating history of this marvelous street and a crime that shocked New York and dominated the papers for most of 1857, see my recently published work "Butchery on Bond Street - Sexual Politics and the Burdell-Cunningham Case in Ante-bellum New York." Available via Amazon, B+N, many independent book stores in Manhattan and Brooklyn including St. Mark's Book Store on Third Avenue and 9th Street and Book Court on Court Street, Brooklyn as well as through the book's website, http://www.butcheryonbondstreet.blogspot.com Many thanks to the Observer for carrying this story and its coverage of events relating to my book on July 22nd and thereafter in the 8-Day Week etc. !!

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