Holy Ground: New York City’s Red Light District During the American Revolutionary War

During the mid 1700’s, New York City catered to the darker side of life with its many ‘disorderly houses’, ‘tipling shops’, and brothels. They were all located in a seething slum of shacks and portable houses on land owned and leased by the largest Anglican Parish in the city: Trinity Church. It was for that … Continue reading Holy Ground: New York City’s Red Light District During the American Revolutionary War