Molly Murphy's New York still exists, pretty much unchanged since 1900. It is easy to visit Molly's favorite and not so favorite haunts in the Lower East Side and Greenwich Village.

Typical tenement, Little Italy

Arch, Washington Square

Doorway on Washington Square

Jefferson Market Building--it used to house police and fire stations

Patchin Place, Molly's home

Eighth Avenue, where Molly was arrested while on a stake-out

Mews across 5th Avenue from former, similar mews where Paddy Riley
had his office

Houses on Lower Fifth Avenue

Former police headquarters, Little Italy

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