The Haymarket by John Sloan, 1907

"The Haymarket was among the most notorious underworld establishments of the Gilded Age New York. Located on Sixth Avenue between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Streets, the concert hall was described as a 'marketplace for wholesale prostitution.' Originally a playhouse called the Argyle Rooms in the 1870's, the Haymarket was converted into a dance hall in 1878 and remained in business until 1913. Critics remarked that its nighttime facade was as brightly lit as a Broadway theater and reflected 'the licentious life of the avenue.' On and around the dance floor, women smoked, drank, and accosted patrons to 'treat' them. In 1907, the Ashcan school artist John Sloan immortalized the establishement in one of his pantings."

-from an excerpt in A Pickpocket's Tale: the Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York by Timothy J. Gilfoyle