
The Barbizon Hotel
This is Love
The Purpose and Eviction of the Barbizon Hotel
Learn about the purpose of the Barbizon Hotel as a place for women to find blind dates and have proper meals, and how its closure in the 1970s led to tenant eviction and their fight for rights.
In its early days, the magazine Mademoiselle positioned itself as “the magazine for smart young women.” It published work by Truman Capote, Albert Camus, and Flannery O’Connor. Each summer, the magazine selected 20 women from colleges around the country to come to New York and work as guest editors. For housing, they were put up in a women-only hotel at East 63rd and Lexington Avenue: The Barbizon Hotel. Historian Paulina Bren says: “The Barbizon was a sanctuary."
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