Travel & Visitors Guide - May 19, 2006
Quiet Edison Street once housed bars, brothels
If you could step back in time 100 years, you might be surprised to find that River Street -- as Edison Street was then called -- was lined with taverns, music halls, hotels and, believe it or not, brothels.
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