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“At Old Jeff there is also the literature of architecture: cut stone faces and flowers, spiral stairs, soaring stained glass windows, the feeling, form and sensibility of another age. This, too, is the record of civilization.”
— Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture critic, “The New York Times” 28.November.1967 her evaluation of the Jefferson Market Library
Because of its Victorian Gothic style the Jefferson Market Library is sometimes mistaken for a church. Originally this New York City landmark was a courthouse designed by architects Frederick Clark Withers (1828-1901) and Calvert Vaux (1824–1895), who co-designed Central Park with Frederick Law Olmstead. It was built, along with an adjacent prison and market, between 1875 and 1876 at a cost of $360,000. This architectural gem was voted one of the ten most beautiful buildings in America in a poll of architects in the 1880s. The chimneys resembles those found at Henry VIII’s Hampton Court Palace outside London.
A civil court was on the second floor, where the Adult Reading Room is now; and a police court, where now the first-floor Children’s Room now is. The brick-arched basement, now the Reference Room, was used as a holding area for prisoners headed to jail or to trial.
And then there is that clock tower. The firewatcher’s balcony sits one hundred feet above ground. The bell, which once called volunteer firemen to action, still hangs in the tower and rings out the hour during daylight.
After more than 80 years of service as a courthouse, by 1959 the building had been abandoned and was looked upon as an architectural eyesore. The city planned to knock it down and build an apartment building. Village residents, including poet e. e. cummings, who lived across the street in Patchin Place, organized to save the building from the wrecking ball. In 1961, Mayor Robert Wagner announced a plan to preserve and convert the old courthouse into a public library. The preservation and conversion fell to architect Giorgio Cavaglieri, who had adapted the Astor Library on Lafayette Street to become the Public Theatre. Construction began in 1965 and the library opened for business in 1967. Leave a Comment Address: Sixth Avenue & West 10th StreetDirections: Take the #1 subway train to Sheridan Square/Christopher Street stop; walk one block east on Christopher Street or take the A, B, C, D, E subway train to the West Fourth Street stop; walk north on Sixth Ave. to 10th Street.
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“Founded in 1832, Jefferson Market was one of the principal food markets of the city and was readily recognizable by its wooden fire-lookout tower.”
From “New York’s Greenwich Village” 1968, by Edmund T. Delaney
Here are some of the better-known trials that took place at the Jefferson Market Courthouse, now the Jefferson Market Library.
In 1906, a sensational trial focused national attention on the courthouse. Harry K. Thaw (1871-1947), heir to a coal and railroad fortune, was tried for the murder of one of America’s foremost architects, Stanford White (1853–1906).
This crime of passion was committed by Thaw because of White’s affair with the actress and artist’s model, Evelyn Nesbit before her marriage to Thaw. This trial became known as the Girl in the Red Velvet Swing case because during the course of testimony it was revealed that a red velvet swing had been installed in White’s apartment for Evelyn’s use. Thaw was found to be insane and was sent to an asylum until his release in 1915.
In 1896, Stephen Crane, author of “The Red Badge of Courage,” testified in the courthouse on behalf of a woman he felt was unjustly arrested for prostitution. Crane testified that he was “studying human nature” in New York’s Tenderloin when the alleged solicitation occurred.
In 1909, the near-by Triangle Shirtwaist Company, was picketed by its young female employees for the tough labor practices such as low wages, long hours, and unfair rules, including losing half a day’s pay for taking more time for a toilet break than the floor supervisor felt was necessary. Dozens of striking workers were arrested and taken to Jefferson Market Courthouse, where they were tried in Night Court with the prostitutes.
In 1927, Mae West was tried here on charges of “corrupting the morals of youth” following a police raid of her Broadway play “Sex.” West was fined $500; she also spent one day next door in the Women’s House of Detention and nine days at the workhouse on Welfare Island, now Roosevelt Island. Leave a Comment Address: Sixth Avenue & West 10th StreetDirections: Take the #1 subway train to the Sheridan Square/Christopher Street Stop; walk one block east on Christopher Street, or, take the A, B, C, D, or E subway train to the West Fourth Street stop; walk north on Sixth Avenue to West 10th Street and Sixth Avenue.
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Grace Church, designed in the Neo-Gothic style by 23-year-old James Renwick, Jr. in 1843, sits on land purchased from Henry Brevoort. The church is a National Historic Landmark.
Consecrated in 1846, construction crews for this Episcopal church included inmates from the State Prison, who cut the stone.
Grace Church is well known for its musical programs which including regular organ recitals of classical composers.
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor, THE Mrs. Astor, worshiped here in the last quarter of the 19th century. Leave a Comment Address: 802 BroadwayDirections: BUS: Take the M1 to 11th street, with a stop in front of the Church or the M7 to 13th Street and Broadway. Walk south on Broadway; Grace Church between 10th & 11th streets. SUBWAY: Take the 4,5,6, N, R, or L train to Union Square. Walk south on Broadway.Website: http://www.gracechurchnyc.org/
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The area around Greenwich Village is far from what most tourists picture when they envision NYC. Particluarly on the Western edge, there are tree-lined narrow streets, small houses, some built in the early 1800's, pretty parks, etc.
One interesting spot to visit is Grove Court, off of Grove St., just South of Bedford St. This little enclave of houses was built in the 1850's and is fenced off from the street, making it look like small village of federal-style houses. It's a different kind of experience than Times Square, etc! Leave a Comment Address: Grove St.Directions: Greenwich Village
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This particular memorial area is not located at Ground Zero but Greenwich village, small notes or drawings contributed from all ages, comes in drawing or poem just for reminder for those who died considered as heroes of 9/11. Leave a Comment Address: Greenwich VillageDirections: Grayline Sightseeing provides this stop on the way to Greenwich village town
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Christopher Park, in Greenwich Village, was once part of a tobacco farm owned by Wouter Van Twiller in the 1630s. Skinner Road was laid out separating the Twiller farm from two others. It was later renamed Christopher Street, to honor Charles Christopher Amos, an heir of a trustee to one of the other farms.
In 1835 a destructive fire blazed through this densely populated area. In order to provide much-needed open space the City granted the request of local citizens to condemn the buildings on a triangular block where Christopher, Grove, and West 4th Streets intersected. Christopher Park was created from the City’s action on April 5, 1837.
Directly across the street from the park on June 27, 1969, following a police raid, a riot took place on Christopher Street at the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar. For several days, in what came to be known as the Stonewall Rebellion, thousands of protesters took to the streets rallying against police harassment of gays and their Constructional right to peaceful assembly. Christopher Park became a symbol of the gay rights movement. In 1999 the Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surrounding neighborhood were placed on the New York State Register of Historic Places and added to the National Register.
Two sculptures are located within the Park.
“Gay Liberation Monument” (see photos #2 & #3) by George Segal (1924–2000) honors the gay rights movement and the events at the Stonewall Inn.
In the late 1970s Peter Putnam (1927–1987), a patron of the arts from Louisiana, commissioned the Gay Liberation Monument, with the stipulation that the work “had to be loving and caring, and show the affection that is the hallmark of gay people . . . and it had to have equal representation of men and women.”
Because of a public outcry to the work and renovations to the park, the white-finished bronze sculptural grouping was not unveiled until June 23, 1992.
The other sculpture (see photos #4 & #5) in the park is that of an over-life-sized figure of the Civil War general, Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888). The bronze, by Joseph P. Pollia (1893-1954), was dedicated in 1936, the 72nd anniversary of General Sheridan’s victory at the battle of Cedar Creek in the Shenandoah Valley. Because of the presence of General Sheridan’s bronze likeness, Christopher Park is often mistaken for nearby Sheridan Square Park, named for the general in 1896.
In this impressive work of art a fierce-looking General Sheridan stands in full-army regalia, booted and spurred with a sword at his side. The Conway green granite pedestal bears the inscription in praise of Sheridan that is attributed to General Ulysses S. Grant, “He belongs to the first rank of soldiers, not only of our country, but of the world.” Leave a Comment Address: Christopher, Grove & West Fourth StreetsDirections: Take the red subway line #1 to the Christopher Street/Sheridan Square/New York University stop. When you reach street level, you are at the park!
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