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Twentieth century New York saw a lot of paradise paved (see Moses, Robert), but there is one spot in New York that saw paradise reclaimed — not from a parking lot but from an eleven-story prison that once stood at 10 Greenwich Avenue. June 18, 1932 cover by William Crawford Galbraith. The Jefferson Market Garden in Greenwich Village was once the site of a women’s prison designed to be a more…

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“Painted People”, short  story, 1926.

~ illustration by Douglas Ryan in Motion Picture Classic Magazine.

“Jonquil loved the Bible readings on Sunday evenings.  She and Grandmother Rogers would sit under the lamp in the parlor and Grandmother would read brimstony passages in her ice-cold trickle of a voice.”

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Douglas Ryan illustration for a story called, “Three-a-Day Hearts”, by John Hanlon, in Motion Picture Classic, 1922

“Ain’t you heard, kid?” Miss Randolph was charmed at this chance to spread scandal. “ . . . Lark Taylor was Frank LaVerne’s wife.  Yeh, honest-to-Gawd, with a ring ‘n everything”