Biograph Theater

John Dillinger, the Depression-era bank robber and FBI's first Public Enemy Number One, was shot and killed by federal agents in the alley beside the Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, just after watching "Manhattan Melodrama." Witnesses since the 1970s have reported a blue-gray silhouette of a man running from the theater into the alley, falling, and disappearing — the same path Dillinger took that night. Others describe sudden chills or an overwhelming feeling of dread while walking through what longtime residents still call Dillinger's Alley.