Perhaps of interest to 2021 student researchers in this class.
John Jay College Library Special Collections and Digital Collections
US National Archives and Records Admin (NARA)
Gilfoyle, T. (1994). Prostitutes in the Archives: Problems and Possibilities in Documenting the History of Sexuality. The American Archivist, 57(3), 514-527. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40293850
Phoenix House Foundation Oral History Collection, 2014-2015 (Columbia U. Sp. Coll.)
FBI Vault (freely accessible files)
NYC Municipal Archives Collections and Digital Collections
New York State Archives - collections on Prisons and Inmates and Digital Collections
Library of Congress Digital Collections and Chronicling America (newspapers) JJC Library has listed additional Newspaper resources
Independent Voices - open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals