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Tons of new updates on No. 9 Duane Street in the last three days (I've just uploaded another set), and I'm still not done yet.

Last night I found one of the most interesting things. Ever since I started researching the Brooklyn Newsboys' LH, it's been a mystery to me who their Superintendent was. Supt. Heig at the DSLH got a fair amount of mention in the press, but I couldn't find any significant mention of his counterpart in Brooklyn. I was also hampered by the fact that BCAS named positions a little differently than did the Manhattan CAS, by my own assumptions that a single woman at the time would not have been put in charge of the day-to-day lodging necessities of 100+ street boys, by the fact that several different titles were used for her, and by the fact that she was even referred to by several different names! But last night I finally put all the pieces together, though I haven't yet written it up for the site.

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Tons of new updates on No. 9 Duane Street in the last three days (I've just uploaded another set), and I'm still not done yet.

Last night I found one of the most interesting things. Ever since I started researching the Brooklyn Newsboys' LH, it's been a mystery to me who their Superintendent was. Supt. Heig at the DSLH got a fair amount of mention in the press, but I couldn't find any significant mention of his counterpart in Brooklyn. I was also hampered by the fact that BCAS named positions a little differently than did the Manhattan CAS, by my own assumptions that a single woman at the time would not have been put in charge of the day-to-day lodging necessities of 100+ street boys, by the fact that several different titles were used for her, and by the fact that she was even referred to by several different names! But last night I finally put all the pieces together, though I haven't yet written it up for the site.