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A shabby, Raines law hotel-type New York City saloon and rooming house serves as the 1912 setting of the classic play The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill. A bar named the Raines Law Room, at the Williams Hotel in New York City, is named in commemoration of the impact of the law. [9]
On May 1, 1905, a law was passed and required a city inspection to occur before a license was issued. By 1911, most Raines law hotels had closed, but the Committee remained active until it ran out of money in 1932, when it was disbanded. [3]
New York's Raines Law meant to crack down on drinking, but it instead gave rise to an industry of hotel brothels.
John Raines (May 6, 1840, in Geneva, Ontario County, New York – December 16, 1909, in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He authored the 1896 Raines Law , which prohibited liquor sales on Sundays, except in hotels, which had the unintended consequence of fostering prostitution .
The Committee of Fifteen was a New York City citizens' group formed in November 1900 to combat prostitution and gambling.Established by influential members of New York's upper class, the Committee aimed to expose and reduce vice within the city, focusing particularly on areas where police corruption and political protection facilitated illegal activities.
New York’s highest court on Tuesday ordered the state to redraw its congressional map, handing Democrats a major win in the fight for control of the US House of Representatives in the upcoming ...
Columbia Hall, commonly known as Paresis Hall, was a brothel and gay bar located on 392 Bowery in Manhattan, New York City, in the 1890s. [1] Located near Cooper Union, the Hall was owned by the gangster James T. Ellison. [1]
Raines v. Byrd , 521 U.S. 811 (1997), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held individual members of Congress do not automatically have standing to litigate the constitutionality of laws affecting Congress as a whole.