What’s a name? Gay Street - Village Prervatn

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• GAY STREET COMMONS - 117 W GAY ST, WT CHTER, PA 19380
• WHAT’S A NAME? GAY STREET

GAY STREET COMMONS - 117 W GAY ST, WT CHTER, PA 19380

Gay Street Commons: 117 W Gay St, Wt Chter, PA 19380. Southward view of Gay Street via Wiki Commons.

Gay Street is one of the most charmg and picturque streets Greenwich Village, an in of the historic neighborhood’s anachronistic character. And while the street certaly has strong nnectns to gay liberatn and the Ain-Amerin stggle for eedom, the history behd the name is a ltle murkier, and a ltle more plited to unravel, than one might expect.

WHAT’S A NAME? GAY STREET

Northward view of Gay Street via Wiki Commons. Gay street is unique several rpects. The three- and four-story Feral and Greek Revival-style ho which le much of s length give Gay Street a remarkably timate feel.

In the later 19th century, when the Village was the center of New York’s Ain-Amerin muny, many of the rints of Gay Street were black, and many of them were also micians. Historic Bromley map of Manhattan showg Gay Street lower right (urty of David Jarrett — historic maps available on Village Prervatn’s webse; see “Maps” unr Rourc).