How Has Amazon Affected America? And Other Letters to the Editor
The Barbizon Hotel in 1980. It offered exclusivity and an appearance of chaste propriety in an era when the city more broadly, and women’s independence in it in particular, were regarded as suspicious and full of dangers.Credit.Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
April 16, 2021
To the Editor:
Moira Donegan’s review of “The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free” (April 4) brought back memories. In 1963, when I was newly graduated from Douglass Residential College, my dad allowed me to go to New York only if I lived at the Barbizon.