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
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THE HISTORY OF GREENWICH VILLAGE’S GAY STREET
* where is gay street *
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
Like other vulnerable landmarks across the cy, the hoe at 14 Gay Street — which helped spire the mil “Wonrful Town” — is beg molished. * where is gay street *
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.
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.
IS GAY STREET REALLY ‘GAY’?
Gay Street Lotn. 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.