…Savas Abadsidis “Where Were the Lesbians in the Stonewall Riots? The Women’s House of Detention & Lesbian Resistance,” by Polly Thistlethwaite “Women’s House of Detention, 1931-1974,” by Joan Nestle “Women’s…
Read More…all images of the Women’s House of Detention in our historic image archive here, and more information about the Women’s House of Detention, including past lectures and blog posts, here….
Read More…Women’s House of Detention. Found on our Civil Rights and Social Justice map, this former imposing edifice served as a prison from its opening on March 29, 1932 until it…
Read More…one of his stories, Wolfe recounts a memory from the 1960’s when he lived in the Village, where he would often pass by the New York Women’s House of Detention…
Read More…left empty and used only by pigeons and rats. A 1938 photo showing the Women’s House of Detention south of the Jefferson Market Courthouse, via NYPL But Villagers saved their…
Read MoreA Zoom Livestream The Center and Village Preservation are proud to present historian Hugh Ryan and his new book The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison….
Read More…House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison. The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women’s imprisonment, is now largely forgotten….
Read More…and the notorious and imposing Women’s House of Detention. Prior to its current incarnation as a beloved library, the Jefferson Market Library, which now frames the view from Patchin Place, was abandoned…
Read More…Tourmaline writes, “Following the Stonewall Rebellion and the first annual Christopher Street Liberation Day March —which held a rally at the Women’s House of Detention where Panther 21 members were…
Read More…and replaced with the infamous Women’s House of Detention in 1929, which was itself demolished and replaced by the bucolic Jefferson Market Garden in 1973). The building saw a lot of action…
Read More…of Detention, an imposing building that loomed over Jefferson Market Courthouse from 1932 to 1974. However, about one-hundred years before the Women’s House of Detention came into being, the Village…
Read MoreThe House of D: A Panel on the Women’s House of Detention Co-hosted by the Jefferson Market Library. Audre Lorde described the Women’s House of Detention, an eleven-story Art Deco…
Read More…Davis & Dorothy Day, Women’s House of Detention A 1938 photo showing the Women’s House of Detention south of the Jefferson Market Courthouse, via NYPL These five notorious women all…
Read More…photo showing the Women’s House of Detention south of the Jefferson Market Courthouse, via NYPL What do these women have in common? All were jailed in the notorious Women’s House of…
Read More…Closing, Housing in the Village Page 7: Roadway through the square Page 8-13: Saving Washington Square park from Roadway, Closing House of detention, Title I redevelopment Page 14: Proposed NYU…
Read More…an historic architectural style on this Bastille Day in the Village. Jefferson Market Garden (former site of the Women’s House of Detention, 10 Greenwich Ave.) Women’s House of Detention As…
Read More…Market Courthouse from demolition and to close the Women’s House of Detention on Sixth Avenue. Philip Wittenberg hosted the Committee for a Library in the Jefferson Market Courthouse’s first meeting…
Read More…of the Women’s House of Detention. Some of the ghosts of the women who died there are reported to lurk around the building. 12 GAY STREET This Federal townhouse was…
Read More…[THREAD] — Hugh Ryan (@Hugh_Ryan) June 28, 2022 Women’s House of Detention “Women’s House of Detention at the intersection of Greenwich and Sixth Avenue. At this time, the prison had…
Read More…and 52nd Street. The Women’s House of Detention She was brought to the Women’s House of Detention on Greenwich Avenue and 10th Street in Greenwich Village (now the Jefferson Market…
Read More…the FBI in 1970 at the Howard Johnson’s Motor Lodge on Eighth Avenue and 52nd Street. The Women’s House of Detention She was brought to the Women’s House of Detention…
Read More…full of memories (video) (event description) Miscellaneous Faves: The Women’s House of Detention The House of D Our most international event of the year, centered on a long-reviled, now-gone Greenwich…
Read More…provided and continue to provide for drag queens. Watch here! The House of D: A Panel on the Women’s House of Detention — Audre Lorde described the Women’s House of…
Read More…and the Court of Special Sessions. Beginning in 1934 the Women’s House of Detention stood next door, which was razed and replaced with the Jefferson Market Garden we have today….
Read MoreWPA Mural from Greenwich Village’s Women’s House of Detention (demolished 1974) On April 8, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. This act granted the President…
Read More…of Detention was built next to the library on the parcel of land that would eventually become the garden. Over the course of its existence, the Women’s House of Detention…
Read More…Village and Back: Gould Library & Begrisch Hall Ariel Kates: African American, Feminist, & LGBTQ Solidarity at the Women’s House of Detention Sam Moskowitz: Remembering the 344th Lost Firefighter, and…
Read More…soon thereafter replaced with the Women’s House of Detention, which was later demolished and is now the site of the Jefferson Market Garden. The court offered to drop the charges…
Read More…adjacent garden wasn’t always the pretty picture it is now. From 1932 until 1974 the site was occupied by the New York Women’s House of Detention, which was connected to…
Read MoreThe subject of how much government can and should invest in infrastructure and public works is a hot topic of debate, especially now. Such conversations often point back to the…
Read More…Square Park; and especially her work in helping to transform a deserted courthouse into the Jefferson Market Library, and the site of the former Women’s House of Detention into a…
Read More…of the former Women’s House of Detention into a verdant blooming oasis at the heart of our neighborhood. Jefferson Market Garden Mercer Houston Dog Run Also awarded that year was…
Read More…the same. Read the post here. #3: The Women’s House of Detention To walk by the verdant, lush garden behind the graceful Jefferson Market Library today, one can scarcely imagine…
Read More…ranging. The concrete act that Solanas undertook – shooting three people – which landed her in the Jefferson Market Women’s House of Detention – now the Jefferson Market Garden –…
Read More…and clutter.” 103 Avenue A After being arrested, Ethel was sent to the Women’s House of Detention. This prison opened in 1932 and was built to replace an old jail…
Read More…being arrested, Ethel was sent to the Women’s House of Detention. This prison opened in 1932 and was built to replace an old jail that was part of the Jefferson…
Read More…to huge changes like the demolition of the Women’s House of Detention, as well as familiar landmarks like the White Horse Tavern, Jane Jacobs’ house (555 Hudson Street), 233-37 Bleecker…
Read More…Women’s House of Detention with the Libray tower visble. Courtesy of Ephemeral New York. Jefferson Market Library: Replacement of entrance doors In the late 1950s, Villagers banded together to preserve…
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…the demolition of the Women’s House of Detention, which was a sea change for the West Village. Some photos date to the early-to-mid-1970s, when Linda first moved to the neighborhood,…
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Read More…the garden, which was built on the plot of land adjacent to the library after the Women’s House of Detention was demolished in 1971-1974. Read more about the Garden’s early…
Read More…eventually shutter the hulking Women’s House of Detention at Sixth Avenue and West 9th Street had spurred local groups to come up with alternatives for the space. The one below…
Read More…Bronx), as well as some less seemly experiences connected to the Women’s House of Detention on Greenwich Avenue and Christopher Street, and the notoriously seedy Greenwich Hotel on Bleecker Street…
Read More…Peter H. Fritsch in 1962 and donated by Nick Fritsch. Women’s House of Detention at the intersection of Greenwich and Sixth Avenue. At this time, the prison had…
Read More…House of Detention. By 1974, the building was gone and the city had an empty lot on its hands. Because the city had no money for a new park, volunteers…
Read MoreCorner of West 4th and West 10th Streets, Nat Kaufman Collection, c. 1950, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Villager’s often point to the neighborhood’s low scale buildings and meandering,…
Read More…Women’s House of Detention. Major portions of the Espionage Act remain part of United States law to the present day, and have been used to obtain convictions in high profile…
Read More…Avenue (The Women’s House of Detention is the large building on the left in the 1969 picture; it was demolished and replaced with the Jefferson Market Garden, shown in the…
Read More…prisoners’ rights movement, including The Fortune Society. The work of Villagers Rothenberg and Kunstler (and others, especially one-time Villager Angela Davis, who spent time at the Women’s House of Detention…
Read MoreGay Liberation Poster, designed by Su Negrin and Suzanne Bevier and photographed by Peter Hujar in 1970. Sourced from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. Although June 1969 is in…
Read More…as they bent history with their work, art, lives, and advocacy. Image Credit: Women’s House of Detention (demolished) at Greenwich and Sixth Avenue. At this time, the prison had been closed…
Read More…to offer. Tended to by dedicated community members, the flowers that bloom there represent a loving reclamation of the land where the Women’s House of Detention previously stood. Adjacent to the…
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