Hell Gate

To the women and men of the special victims units of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the NYPD-past and present-who have always worked on the side of the angels…

with respect and gratitude

Resignedly beneath the sky

the melancholy waters lie.

So blend the turrets and shadows there

That all seem pendulous in air,

While from a proud tower in the town

death looks gigantically down.

– EDGAR ALLAN POE, “The City in the Sea”