Mistrs and misnomers: the story of Gay Street - The Bowery Boys: New York Cy History

Contents:

• THE HISTORY OF GREENWICH VILLAGE’S GAY STREET
• GAY STREET
• MISTRS AND MISNOMERS: THE STORY OF GAY STREET
• GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
• KNOXVILLE ENTREPRENR TURNS TO REAL TATE VTMENT, STARTG WH THIS GAY STREET LOT
• GAY STREET, BALTIMORE REAL TATE & HOM FOR SALE
• GAY STREET BALTIMORE REAL ESTATE & HOM FOR SALE
• WHO OWNS GAY STREET?

THE HISTORY OF GREENWICH VILLAGE’S GAY STREET

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTStreetspIn the Village, Another Piece of the Cy’s History Is Comg DownLike other vulnerable landmarks across the cy, the hoe at 14 Gay Street — which helped spire the mil “Wonrful Town” — is beg 1937, when this photograph was taken, 14 Gay Street and s siblg 16 Gay Street were already more than 100 years old. Today, there are only a few such ho left Greenwich Village — built the early 19th century for the merntile class, rather than the Abbott, via The New York Public LibraryOne Monday late November, prervatnists, policians, neighbors and looky-loos gathered at dk on Manhattan’s ty Gay Street, a slim crcent the heart of Greenwich Village, to prott the moln of a nearly 200-year-old hoe there.

The place qutn, 14 Gay Street, is one of a clutch of six wsome but prer early 19th-century buildgs on Gay and Christopher Streets that were owned for s by Celte Mart, a sgular character voted to her properti and to the often eccentric st of tenants she Mart died late 2018, at 94, wh no will and no close relativ, so the cy took over her holdgs, sellg 14 Gay Street and s siblgs for about $9 ln to a buyer who flipped them last April to Lnel Nazarian, a 37-year-old veloper, for about $12 ln. Nazarian has done foundatn work that has stabilized 14 Gay Street and imperiled s neighbors, so the cy has orred s moln, a slow, labor procs that began jt before Thanksgivg. ImageCelte Mart, who died 2018 at 94, owned six historic properti on Gay and Christopher Streets, cludg 14 Gay Street.

GAY STREET

”The cy, along wh the Landmarks Prervatn Commissn, said a statement had approved plans for the work on Gay Street and that Mr. ”The buildg at 14 Gay Street dat to 1827; s siblgs, a year later.

By then, Gay Street was an tegrated block, wh a large Black muny and a meltg pot of immigrants om Ireland, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany and Belgium.

MISTRS AND MISNOMERS: THE STORY OF GAY STREET

ImageDemoln recently began at 14 Gay Street.

GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE

The cy has orred that the work be done by hand and the material saved for e a renstctn overseen by the cy and the Landmarks Prervatn Masuike/The New York TimAll six buildgs are landmarked — Gay Street is the Village’s historic district — but No. Wh the help of his wife, Ramee, he turned the Gay and Christopher Street buildgs to a plex of furnished stud apartments, rated by Ramee and outfted wh slipvers and curtas sewn by their her short story “Mr. At one pot, he hung a sign his office at 16 Gay Street clarg this policy.

However, she was never the most assiduo steward of the Jeanne Kelly, the former director of fossil preparatns at the Amerin Mm of Natural History and a Gay Street neighbor for two s, put , they were held together wh sp and a prayer, and the haphazard mistratns of a retue of helpers that at one pot clud a super who was bld and a physics teacher wh a number of Ms. Its driver, a private ntractor, said he was there to do work unr the road ont of 14 Gay Street.

Across the street, Joan Goldberg, a broker wh Brown Harris Stevens, was holdg a quasi-open hoe at 13 Gay Street, a most Greek Revival built around 1840 and owned by Margaret Kunstler, the widow of the civil rights lawyer William Kunstler, who died 1995 and was known for reprentg some ntroversial clients. ”ImageRuth McKenney memorialized her dodgy subterranean apartment 14 Gay Street “My Sister Eileen, ” a llectn of stori about her adventur as a young wrer the cy that was published 1938 and spired the fizzy early 1950s mil “Wonrful Town, ” wh lyrics by Betty Comn and Adolph Green and mic by Leonard days, om the top floor of Ms.

KNOXVILLE ENTREPRENR TURNS TO REAL TATE VTMENT, STARTG WH THIS GAY STREET LOT

Furthermore, the cy is requirg that the moln of 14 Gay Street be done by hand and s material saved for e a renstctn that the cy and the Landmarks Prervatn Commissn will oversee. If you’ve strolled through Greenwich Village, you’ve probably e across Gay Street and wonred how got s name. Jt a block away om the famo Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of morn LGBTQ rights, one would thk Gay Street is named after the rts.

Why is Gay Street Called Gay Street? It go back to a time when the term “gay, ” didn’t have any relatn to a person’s sexualy.

Instead, the origal meang of gay was to be happy and reee.

GAY STREET, BALTIMORE REAL TATE & HOM FOR SALE

To everyone, they were livg the “gay life. When was Gay Street Named?

It is assumed by historians that Gay Street was given s name the 1820s. It is bee of this associatn, that people like to assume ’s named after Sydney Howard Gay, the edor of The Natnal Anti-Slavery Standard and a key figure the Unrground Railroad.

GAY STREET BALTIMORE REAL ESTATE & HOM FOR SALE

The History of Gay Street. In the late 19th century, when Greenwich Village was the hub of New York Cy’s Ain-Amerin muny, many of the rints on Gay Street were POC and also micians. Some notable Gay Street rints durg that time were Ruth McKenney and her sister Eileen.

Gay Street Lotn.

Natnal Register of Historic Plac: 11/12/2003 Dcriptn The Gay Street Historic District, loted to the east of the ma downtown bs district of Baltimore Cy, is a notable example of a late 19th and early 20th century mercial rridor a velopg urban area.

WHO OWNS GAY STREET?

The post-Civil War years were on of particular growth the area, wh banks and surance pani makg their headquarters on Gay Street. Also the years followg the Civil War, two full onts, st iron buildgs were nstcted wh blocks of each other on Gay Street.

In addn to the st iron buildgs, the llectn of mercial buildgs the Gay Street historic District display a broad range of archectural styl and mercial buildg typ. Although the street level fas of most of the buildgs have been altered sce their nstctn, they llectively ntue to nvey the mercial history of the Gay Street area. The buildgs found wh the Gay Street Historic District are most entirely mercial, wh some related and public buildgs, the buildgs found wh the Gay Street Historic are most entirely mercial, wh some related light manufacturg buildgs most notably small wareho and garag found on the si streets of the district.

Signifince The Gay Street Historic District meets Natnal Register Crern C. Wh buildgs that are smaller sle than many of the downtown buildgs of the same era, the Gay Street rridor displays more of a neighborhood mercial appeal rather than the large partment stor and early skyscrapers the downtown.