The Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center

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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• THE BT GAY BARS THE WT VILLAGE
• GREENWICH VILLAGE, STORIED HOME OF BOHEMIA AND GAY HISTORY
• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
• THE 30 BT GAY BARS NYC
• LLIE+LOHMAN MM OF GAY & LBIAN ART
• THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS
• TOP 5 GAY BARS NYC'S EAST VILLAGE
• A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NEW YORK CY'S GAY & QUEER BARS

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

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.

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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.

GREENWICH VILLAGE, STORIED HOME OF BOHEMIA AND GAY HISTORY

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.

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ImageCelte Mart, who died 2018 at 94, owned six historic properti on Gay and Christopher Streets, cludg 14 Gay Street.

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”The cy, along wh the Landmarks Prervatn Commissn, said a statement had approved plans for the work on Gay Street and that Mr. 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. 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.

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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. 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. 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. 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.

Established 1983, the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center has grown to bee the largt LGBT multi-service anizatn on the East Coast and send largt LGBT muny center the world. Ined, The Center was the the birthplace of anizatns such as the AIDS activist group ACT UP and the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), the prcipal anizatn batg homophobia and stereotypg of gays the media.

THE ULTIMATE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO NEW YORK CY: OM QUEER HISTORY TO THE BT GAY BARS

Its entanglements of wdg streets, fyg the cy grid, clu remnants of w paths and property l om when the area was a sprawl of Dutch, then English, Village as a historilly gay neighborhood has long been a source of lol pri, but seemed mostly unremarkable to me and to my childhood iends who were native Villagers bee was simply another fact of daily life. By the 1970s, the neighborhood’s gay epicenter had shifted toward Christopher Street, the olst street the Village, s irregular route tracg the borr of what had been the Brish admiral Peter Warren’s Colonial-era long ago I asked Andrew Dolkart, an archectural historian at Columbia Universy, to nstct an L. MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Andrew, durg the summer of 1969, police raid a bar at 51-53 Christopher Street lled the Stonewall DOLKART In the 1960s, the Stonewall Inn was a Mafia-ntrolled bar, as were almost all gay and lbian bars, bee the State Liquor Authory creed that the mere prence of a homosexual a bar nstuted disorrly nduct.

That’s why the Natnal Register listg clus the Stonewall buildg, Christopher Park, and all of the streets around , as far east as Sixth register a sense nods to the Village at large as a gay gay history go back at least to the early 20th century, when Greenwich Village was beg a bohemian pal.

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When we advoted for the cy to signate Stonewall a landmark, I remember a guy speakg up at a public hearg, sayg he was favor of signatn, but that we should not fet that Stonewall was fact a dreary as Lillian Farman, a historian of lbian history, has put , Stonewall “sound the rally for the movement, ” leadg to the foundg of anizatns like the Gay Liberatn Front, the Gay Activists Alliance, and the Radilbians. The Christopher Street Liberatn Day march, on the one-year anniversary of Stonewall, beme the annual Pri Para, which now happens dozens of wt of Stonewall, I also want to pot out 59 Christopher Street, a buildg that hoed the last headquarters of the New York Cy chapter of the Mattache Society, an early natnal gay rights anizatn — at the time the phrase was “homophile anizatn” — found Los Angel 1950. Alison Bechl said that she me to the shop as a young lbian, not sure what she wanted to do wh her life, and saw all the gay and lbian ic books, and that spired her to bee a graphic novelist.

A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF NEW YORK CY'S GAY & QUEER BARS

ImageJuli’, at the rner of Waverly and Wt 10th Street, is one of the olst gay bars the DeZonOne of the olst gay bars New the mid-60s the Mattache Society cid to challenge the New York State Liquor Authory policy that a bar uld be closed down if knowgly served a homosexual. Dick Lesch, the Mattache Society print; Rodwell, the bookstore owner, who was s vice print; and John Timmons, another society member, cid to go to bars along wh newspaper reporters, announce they were gay, ask for a drk, and wa to be nied. Stewart’s was a popular cha of the era and this branch beme a famo hnt for a flamboyantly gay and lbian crowd, performg for tourists who would sometim stand three or four people ep, starg through the wdows.