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New York's Raines Law meant to crack down on drinking, but it instead gave rise to an industry of hotel brothels.
Dorman, bar director and partner of Raines Law Room and Dear Irving bars, each with multiple locations, said customers were buying fewer expensive craft cocktails, priced between $26 and $40 ...
John Raines. The Raines Liquor-Tax Law, The North American Review, Vol. 162, No. 473 (Apr., 1896), pp. 481-485. Frank B. Gilbert and Robert C. Cumming. The Liquor Tax Law of 1896: The Excise And Hotel Laws of the State of New York, As Amended to the Legislative Session of 1897. With Complete Notes, Annotations and Forms. Albany, N.Y.: M. Bender ...
The name "Combat Zone" was popularized through a series of exposé articles on the area Jean Cole wrote for the Boston Daily Record in the 1960s. [1] The moniker described an area that resembled a war zone both because of its well-known crime and violence, and because many soldiers and sailors on shore leave from the Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard frequented the many strip clubs and brothels ...
The Rev. Thomas De Witt Talmage called New York City the "modern Gomorrah" for allowing the Tenderloin to exist. Early in the 19th century, the major vice district had been located in what is now SoHo, called at the time "Hells' Hundred Acres", but as the city grew steadily northward, the theater district along Broadway and the Bowery moved uptown as well, as did the legitimate and ...
The nearly indigent "free lunch fiend" was a recognized social type. An 1872 New York Times story about "loafers and free-lunch men" who "toil not, neither do they spin, yet they 'get along'", visiting saloons, trying to bum drinks from strangers: "Should this inexplicable lunch-fiend not happen to be called to drink, he devours whatever he can, and, while the bartender is occupied, tries to ...
Ann Street, also known as the "Black Sea", was an infamous neighborhood in the 19th century.The main street and its side alleys formed a red-light district where brothels, inns, "jilt shops", and taverns [3] could be segregated from the rest of the city. [4]
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