If you’ve strolled through Greenwich Village, you’ve probably e across Gay Street and wonred how got s name. The street is loted wt of 6th Ave, between Christopher St and Waverly Pl. Jt a block away om the famo Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of morn LGBTQ rights, one would thk Gay Street is named
Contents:
- DID YOU KNOW THE 100 BLOCK OF GAY STREET WAS RAISED? TAKE AN UNRGROUND TOUR
- WHO OWNS GAY STREET?
- GAY STREET
- THE HISTORY OF GREENWICH VILLAGE’S GAY STREET
- BACK TO THE ’90S AND THE GAY UNRGROUND BALLROOM CULTURE OF NEW YORK
- GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
DID YOU KNOW THE 100 BLOCK OF GAY STREET WAS RAISED? TAKE AN UNRGROUND TOUR
* the gay street underground *
The 100 block of Gay Street was raised one story 1919 to the level is today.
WHO OWNS GAY STREET?
Storeonts are still visible the unrground tate velopers see an opportuny to re-purpose unrground the 100 block of the Gay Street we know today is the 100 block of yterday or, rather, ytercentury.
GAY STREET
Fixg 'the Death Dip' The 100 block of Gay Street was raised to rolve what lol historian Jack Neely referred to as "the Death Dip. "As Gay Street grew and the railroad got by, acmodatg dozens of tras every day, the cy built bridg over the rail yards. "By 1900, the downward slope of Gay Street and the upward slope of a bridge created a road that seemed more like a roller aster — "a pretty absurd thg to fd a by part of town, " Neely said.
THE HISTORY OF GREENWICH VILLAGE’S GAY STREET
The pavement lights people walk over daily on the Gay Street siwalk are illumated om the tunnel directly below where the siwalk ed to unrground street area is now jt a ncrete wall led wh utily box. People who wanr to the bottom floor of the buildg on the east si of Gay Street n peer through glass doors at a mural pated on a wall where the street once was. But jt a few steps away om the mural, out of sight for Emporium visors, is a portn of unrground Gay Street that Hez believ has the most potential.
BACK TO THE ’90S AND THE GAY UNRGROUND BALLROOM CULTURE OF NEW YORK
You n see the urtyard lookg down om Gay Street next to Sterchi Lofts.
The unrground floors of the Commerce Buildg are also visible om Gay Street level. " In Hez's opn, the east si of Gay Street is the more excg si. There is also a tunnel unrneath Gay Street near Unn Avenue and lots of utily rridors beneath siwalks.
14, 2019Wdg south om Waverly Place, north to Christopher Street, Gay Street is one of the shortt stretch of road New York.
GUI TO GAY STREET KNOXVILLE, TENNSEE
Let’s beg wh the qutn “Why is lled Gay Street? It is lled Gay Street bee is the middle of Greenwich Village, once the center of gay life the cy.