2006 New York Code - Women Under Arrest To Have Separate Accommodations.

 
    § 94. Women under arrest to have separate accommodations.  It shall be
  the  duty  of the boards of commissioners of police in every city, or if
  there be no board of police, then of the mayor of such city, to  provide
  sufficient  accommodations  for  women  held  under  arrest to keep them
  separate and apart from the cells, corridors and apartments provided for
  males under arrest, and  to  so  arrange  each  station  house  that  no
  communication  can  be  had  between the men and women therein confined,
  except with the consent of the matrons and officers in  charge  of  such
  station house.