No. 176 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS (1926) The home of Judge Thomas G. Sherman, counsel to Henry Ward Beecher during the famous Beecher-Tilton scandal. Fatally ill in 1900, his kidney was removed in his bedroom, but he died 4 hours later.
HOW CASEY THE COP SPELT “KOSCIUSZKO” (1904) An apocryphal "tail" about a #Brooklyn policeman who came across a dead horse on a difficult-to-spell street. tinyurl.com/tu3wehp7
“There was once an Irish policeman who was responding to the presence of a dead horse on Kosciuszko Street."
Upon arriving at the scene of the dead horse, Casey began to write his report. When he got to the part where he was supposed to write the location in which the horse was discovered, the policeman faltered.