Talk:Jefferson Market Library

Join Us! Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Greenwich Village in the 60s on November 2nd
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Location: New York Public Library, Jefferson Market Library in the East Village Address: 425 6th Ave, New York, NY 10011 Date: Saturday, November 2nd

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Jefferson Market redirect: turn into an article?
Not sure if anyone's watching this page, but any objection to moving Jefferson Market Prison to Jefferson Market (currently a redirect to this article), and then changing the focus to be the history of all the buildings in the whole area? The prison itself is just one tiny aspect of what was at the site - to quote the NYC parks page :
 * Today home to a park and library, the Jefferson Market opened on this site in 1833 alongside a police court, a volunteer firehouse, and a jail. The market grew rapidly to include fishmongers, poultry vendors, and hucksters until it was razed in 1873 to make way for a new civic complex and courthouse, which opened in 1877. In 1927 the jail, the market, and the firehouse were demolished and replaced by the city’s only House of Detention for Women, which opened in 1931. Famous residents of the detention center included Mae West, Ethel Rosenberg, and Grace Paley. The adjacent old courthouse was abandoned in 1945, nearly demolished but saved by the Greenwich Village Association in 1962 and readapted as a public library. In 1973 the House of Detention was torn down to make way for a park, its design and care trusted by the city to the Jefferson Market Garden Committee. The garden was originally landscaped by noted horticulturist Pamela Berdan, and today is sustained by volunteers from the community.

The current article has two rather shabby old NYT articles on the jail that was there from 1877-1927. It doesn't really appear to be that notable stand-alone (the third reference is to a separate House of Detention that was featured in House of D). The revised moved article can talk about the old buildings as well as the current garden & library. SnowFire (talk) 07:20, 25 July 2021 (UTC)