Bay Ridge Gore Tour #16
This is the Prince Hotel, located on 93rd Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues (same block as Gore Tour # 13), it operated for decades as the Spofford, which was a single room occupancy place without a sign on the outside that had been known to the lowlife around NYC as a place to get their fix of drugs and sex on top of a night (or day in most cases) of sleep.
I used to work in the store down at the corner from this place. I could go on and on and on about the various hookers, junkies, drug dealers, pimps, thievery, stabbings, police raids, and even an explosion that I’ve seen at this place, but none of those are as atrocious as this tale of gore…
In the late 90s, prior to the owner converting the name of the business from the Spofford to the Prince Hotel, I walked down the block on my way home from the subway and came across the yellow tape of a crime scene, with NYPD all over the place as well as news trucks stationed around.
That night I turned to the news and saw the very scene that I had just passed…and this is from my memory banks since Google really is awful at locating any such news story of this event…
A woman apparently went to the police stating that a man had kidnapped her baby from her while in another neighborhood of Brooklyn - Williamsburg?
In any event, the mother’s story didn’t add up to police, and they soon found out that the mother had been at the Spofford, killed her baby at the Spofford, and then traveled to the East River, and threw her dead baby into the river.
How’s THAT for bad parenting?!?!
