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From the History
of the New York Police Department The Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, made a n application to the
City Council for a grant of land for the proposed institution. The committee to whom the request was referred recommended
"that the piece of ground lying at the junction of the Bloomingdale and Old Post roads, on which the U. S. Arsenal was
situated, which was granted on the 17th of November, 1807, by the corporation to the General Government, upon the express
condition and understanding that the same should be used for the purposes of an arsenal and deposit of military stores, and
whenever it should cease to be used for such purposes, it was to revert to the corporation, should be conveyed to the board
of managers of the Society, whenever they obtain from the General government conveyance of the interest they had in the grounds."
Source: Our Police Protectors Holice and Debbie
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