Women's House of detention, Avenue of the Americas behind the public library. Built about 1930 and demolished 1974, the gothic courthouse with it's gargoyled clock tower, stained glass and marble staircase, almost wound up gone in the 60s but was saved at the last minute and renovated into a branch of the NY public library.
A section of a bronze art-deco interior doorway panel from the Woman's House of Detention on 6th Ave, 1929, demolished in 1973
