USA - City Prison, New York. Referred to as 'The Tombs' - The Tombs, New York. The Tombs is the colloquial name for the Manhattan Detention Complex (formerly the Bernard B. Kerik Complex), a jail in Lower Manhattan at 125 White Street, as well as the popular name of a series of preceding downtown jails, the first of which was built in 1838 in the Egyptian Revival style of architecture.. Part of Box 160 Modern New York, Boswell collection.