84 2nd Avenue
East Village | built 1841
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1887
Nellie Bly picks the Temporary Home for Females at 84 Second Avenue as her way into the asylum
Planning her undercover investigation for the New York World, reporter Nellie Bly looked through a directory and chose the Temporary Home for Females at No. 84 Second Avenue. She reasoned that a houseful of women who thought her insane would see that she was put in secure quarters, and she rehearsed a wide, unblinking stare in the mirror. Her plan was to get from the home to the asylum on Blackwell's Island, an investigation she later published as Ten Days in a Mad-House.
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Further reading
- 84 Second AvenueVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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