Eve Addams Tea Room, 129 MacDougal Street ca. 1933

In 1925, Eve Kotchever (better known by her pseudonym, Eve Addams) opened her tearoom here at 129 MacDougal Street. She was a Polish-Jewish lesbian immigrant known as the "queen of the third sex" and "man-hater" and supported this opinion with a sign on the door of her establishment that read "Men are admitted but not welcome". The Greenwich Village Quill called the tearoom a place where 'ladies prefer each other". On June 17, 1926, the club was raided by police and Addams was charged with disorderly conduct and with obscenity for her collection of short stories, Lesbian Love. She was deported and was later said to have opened a lesbian club in Paris.