The courthouse was built in 1877. There was a fire tower there in circa 1833 and the Jefferson Market. It is now a library Jefferson Market Library – Wikipedia.

Jefferson Market Courthouse was a night court for the next 70 years. Arraigned there defendants such as Boss Tweed, head of Tammany Hall and embezzler of hundreds of millions of dollars during his regime in NYC; Harry Thaw, who killed the architect Stamford White; and May West for lewdness on stage in her production “Sex.”