March 9, 1912. Investigator reported about eight families and eight children in this building, mostly colored. House appeared all right at this visit.
Reports from other sources:
February 1, 1912. Some apartments occupied by prost.i.tutes.
Tenement House Department report, March 9, 1910: Disorderly house. Fourth floor, front, west, X 170. No action necessary. Police report.
_X_ 171. _West 29th Street._
February 2, 1912. A colored woman named X 172 lives in this house and keeps girls. She lately moved from X 173 when X 174 (well known to investigator) was her pimp.
March 4, 1912. Investigator visited this building. Estimated seven families, mostly colored, living here. Saw two suspicious women on first floor. Owner of this property as given in the tax book for 1912 is X 175.
Reports from other sources:
Tenement House Department. February 8, 1910. Disorderly house, bas.e.m.e.nt.
Cause of complaint removed.
Police report. February 24, 1910. Disorderly house, bas.e.m.e.nt, east side, front. X 176, cause of complaint removed.
Police report. November 9, 1911. Disorderly house. Prost.i.tution alleged.
Cause of complaint removed.
_X_ 177. _West 29th Street._
April 19, 1912. A prost.i.tute, X 178, lives at this address and uses her apartments for immoral purposes.
June 19, 1912. 1.10 A. M. Investigator solicited on street by colored women to go to apartment in this building. Price of women 50 cents.
Reports from other sources:
Tenement House Department. November 9, 1911. Disorderly house, prost.i.tution alleged. Cause of complaint removed.
Police report. January 27, 1909. Disorderly house, second floor, front, west. X 179. Cause of complaint removed.
Police report. April 13, 1909. Disorderly house, rear, second floor, east.
X 180 and X 181. Cause of complaint removed.
_X_ 182. _West 29th Street._
February 6, 1912. Investigator reports this a tenement occupied by colored families and prost.i.tutes. On third floor, east, X 172, who is a maid in the house of prost.i.tution at X 183, is a prost.i.tute and has had a white man living with her for several months. Investigator visited her apartment with this man and was solicited by X 172 to stay with her. Two other women were in the rear room at the time.
March 4, 1912. Investigator reports about six families (Italian and colored) in this tenement. Suspicious women on third floor, among them X 184, a widow.
March 9, 1912. Investigator reports building mostly occupied by colored people. Two suspicious women on fifth floor.
Reports from other sources:
Tenement House Department. July 25, 1910. Disorderly house, third floor, X 200. Cause of complaint removed.
Police report and police officer. November 9, 1911. Disorderly house, prost.i.tution alleged. No action necessary.
December 26, 1911. Disorderly house, prost.i.tution alleged, second floor, west, cause of complaint removed.
_X_ 185. _West 30th Street._
February 2, 1912. 6.30 P. M. Investigator saw men entering this place.
March 4, 1912. Investigator reported three families living here. House appeared quiet.
August 21, 1912. Investigator reports some of the rooms evidently used by street walkers. Outside door locked.
Reports from other sources:
February 1, 1912. Bed house.
_X_ 186. _West 37th Street._
March 18, 1912. 4.40 P. M. Investigator counted 6 inmates, all colored. He was solicited on 37th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues to enter premises. Price 50 cents. Names of inmates, Hannah and Eliza.
May 1, 1912. 5 A. M. Investigator was solicited to go to second floor of this building by two colored prost.i.tutes standing on the steps of this building. Price 50 cents.
August 24, 1912. Colored prost.i.tutes solicit here day and night from windows of this house and on street in front. Thieves and pimps hang out on corner. Name of owner of this property as given in the tax book for 1912 is X 187.
Reports from other sources:
Tenement House. Colored women carry on business at all hours of the day and night with the purpose of robbery chiefly in view.
August 17, 1912. Place occupied by colored prost.i.tutes. Saw them soliciting from windows on all floors of this building.
APPENDIX XI
HOTELS: ADDITIONAL DATA