Lighter, the following places "hooker" some 50 years earlier. Is it any less likely to be bullshit?

The Lower East Side was where many voyages to New York ended with the sailors coming ashore looking for entertainment of all kinds. As early as 1816 the area round the shipyards and ferry terminal of the Corlear's Hook (GPS 40.71, -73.98) area of Manhattan was notorious for its streetwalkers, "a resort for the lewd and abandoned of both sexes", and the ladies plying their trade here became the original "hookers".