The thieving street walkers of 1870s Soho
“Strangers visiting the city are struck by the number of women who are to be found on Broadway and the streets running parallel to it, without male escorts, after dark,” wrote James D. McCabe in his...
View ArticleMoving to a rundown Mercer Street home in 1965
105 Mercer Street (in 2012, right) has had an illustrious history. Built in 1819 for a seamstress, the three-story brick house became a brothel in the mid–1800s—about the time the city’s elite...
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