The 9th Precinct office investigation unit with Lieutenant Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his TV series, NYC

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The 9th Precinct office investigation unit with Lieutenant Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his TV series, NYC
The 9th Precinct office investigation unit with Lieutenant Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his TV series, NYC
Artist/Maker (American, 1929 - 2006)
Date1978
MediumVintage gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 1/8 × 9 in. (15.5 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 7 × 9 3/8 in. (17.8 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.152
Not on view

Additional Details

Markings Verso, upper left corner (label, printed black ink): “MAG00100714- / 168”
Verso, upper center (typed, blue ink): “`New York’s 'Ninth Precinct Police Station' the home of Kojak. March 79 / The 9th Precinct runs from 14th Street down Houston and Broadway to the East River, the area is an ugly and terrifying place which is the home of / the terrorists of the Puerto Rican F.A.L.N., the Black Liberation Army, / and HQ of NY’s Hell’s Angels. It is the worst block in the city, with its / stinking tenements with no heat, burnt out buildings, drunken derelicts / and junkies, muggers and rapists. You would not want to be in the 9th Pre- / cinct after dark if you could help it. To TV viewers around the world, / Kojak has brought them the realities of crime in the big cities, also / this police station where Kojak is filmed. Psycho stabbers roam the / dark streets and since 1967 over 3,000 policemen have been killed in / America in the performance of their duties, and not one perpetrator has / gone to the electric chair. In NY alone there are over 2,000 homicides / a year and some cops feel it’s time to return to vigilantes and / frontier justice. / (NY Times Magazine 21 January 1979) -Photos Leonard Freed/MAGNUM”
Verso, center right (stamp, black ink): “TIRAGE ARCHIVE MAGNUM PHOTOS / 20 rue des Grands Augustins, 75006 PARIS / EPREUVE á RENDRE / No / MAGNUM PARIS LIBRARY / PRINT TO BE RETURNED”
Verso, lower left (stamp, black ink): “VINTAGE PRINT”
Verso, lower left (stamp, black ink): “© Leonard Freed-Magnum”
Verso, lower left (typed, blue ink): “Photo.17.”
Verso, lower center (typed, blue ink): “(78.9.33/15) the 9th Precinct Office investigation unit with Lieutenant / Edward Manet is the very building that Kojak uses in his tv series.”
Published References Illustrated: Leonard Freed: Police Work, pl. 83
Signature Verso, lower left (pencil): “leonard freed”
Inscribed Verso, upper right corner (black marker): "NYC 2.6.1"
Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "LFPW-083.04"
Verso, upper left edge (pencil): "4000-"
Verso, lower left (pencil): "1978 NEW YORK CITY. / .USA. "
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