The House of D as it came to be known, stood from 1929 to 1974 and nearly every one of the tens of thousands confined there was poor or Black or queer or a person living at multiple intersections of those identities.
He explains that the piece he once found at this site has been forever disrupted by the stories he now knows of what happened here when on this site stood the Women's House of Detention. Historian Hugh Ryan can't stand to spend time in this garden. Butterflies and hummingbirds flock to the bright wildflowers and a lush canopy of yellowwood trees gives dappled shade overhead. At this time of year, the roses and rhododendrons are at peak bloom. The Jefferson Market Garden graces a block in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Melissa Harris-Perry: You're listening to The Takeaway.
