The Alienist

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1. #001

   Theodore Roosevelt served as New York City police commissioner for two years beginning in 1895.

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2. #002

   St. Elizabeths Hospital was the site of the federal mental hospital that took in members of the armed forces deemed unfit for duty. In the early twenty-first century, plans were made to redevelop it as the headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security.

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3. #003

   Luke Evans's character is named John Schuyler Moore. Schuyler is an old New York Dutch family whose roots reach back long before the nation's founding and which had close ties to the Roosevelt clan. One of Moore's well-known ancestors was Elizabeth Schuyler, the wife of Alexander Hamilton.

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4. #004

   Blackwell's Island was later called Welfare Island and was subsequently renamed Roosevelt Island. Because of the number of hospitals and asylums, the area was designated Hospital Park. By the middle of the twentieth century it had become a mixed-use district with the launch of housing developments, and in the twenty-first century a satellite campus of Cornell University and Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Park were established at the island's southern end.

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5. #005

   The "Old Met," the former site of the old Metropolitan Opera building, stood at the corner of 39th Street and Broadway. The old building was known as the "Diamond Horseshoe," and one of the main reasons the opera company moved itself to Lincoln Center was that its stage and backstage area had too little room to accommodate the performers and the sets.

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6. #006

   John briefly interacted with a member of the Astor family. The family made its money in the fur trade in the American West, and what remains of their legacy includes the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and an area in Queens known as Astoria.

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7. #007

   To put the series in context, the consolidation of New York — that is, the incorporation of the four outer boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island into Manhattan — did not take place until 1898, two years after the series' setting of 1896.

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8. #008

   The series is adapted from Caleb Carr's novel "The Alienist."

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9. #009

   The series' main titles were created by the design studio "Elastic," the same studio responsible for the intros of True Detective (2014) and Game of Thrones (2011).

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10. #010

    "Alienist" is a term used for a psychiatrist who assesses a defendant's competency in court.

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11. #011

    In The Alienist, the actual first Caleb Carr novel on which Season 1 is based, the journalist John Schuyler Moore (Luke Evans) is the first-person narrator, and Dr. Kreizler's young driver Stevie Taggert (Matt Lintz) is a secondary character. In Carr's second novel, The Angel of Darkness, on which Season 2 is based, Stevie Taggert is the first-person narrator and features in a major subplot involving an ill-fated relationship with a young prostitute named Kat. For the TV Season 2 adaptation, however, Stevie, Kat and their entire related subplot were written out completely, apart from a very brief initial conversation between Kreizler and Stevie.

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12. #012

    Theodore Roosevelt was right-handed. In the series, Roosevelt is left-handed, which was not socially accepted.

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13. #013

    The Croton Reservoir was located on the site now occupied by the New York Public Library's main branch and Bryant Park.

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14. #014

    The Alienist (2018) was nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award for Best Limited Series but lost to American Crime Story (2016).

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15. #015

    High Bridge Tower stands beside the High Bridge. It once served as an aqueduct that brought water into New York from outside the city.

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16. #016

    The reference to the immigration station's conversion into an aquarium concerns what is now known as Castle Clinton or Castle Garden.

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17. #017

    The series is set in New York City in 1896.

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18. #018

    Q'orianka Kilcher and Jefferson White also appeared in 'Yellowstone.'.

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