About This Item


  • TitleBoys will be butchers
  • Call NumberCRIM_0149
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryThree disheveled adolescent boys (two at left in handcuffs) sitting on bench in precinct house; fire extinguisher overhead at left. Caption: "BOYS WILL BE BUTCHERS: Three youths, charged with beating and stabbing an off-duty cop and his companion, seem to have the fight taken out of them as they await booking in the Canarsie station house. Left to right are Nicolas Fulfaro, 16, Dominick Cuddemi, 19, and Owen Brennan, 16."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 23, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
  • CreatorMurray, Jack
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectTeenage boys -- New York (State) -- New York ; Handcuffs -- New York (State) -- New York ; Crime -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceCanarsie (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.