The brick building at two hundred eight West Thirteenth Street is easily identified by its rusticated stone first floor, featuring round-arched windows and a facade that spans several bays. Built in eighteen sixty-nine, the structure…
West Village Queer History Walk
This walk traces the origins of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement through the winding streets of the West Village, visiting the historic bars, community hubs, and protest sites of NYC's queer activists.
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1. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
2. Cubbyhole
Cubbyhole is easily recognized by its ceiling, which is densely crowded with hanging ornaments, paper lanterns, and festive trinkets. Located at the corner of West Twelfth Street and West Fourth Street, this narrow, roughly…
3. Julius'
Julius' sits at the intersection of West Tenth Street and Waverly Place in an unassuming beige stucco building, identified by the rainbow flags displayed in its windows. Established in the mid-nineteenth century, the structure originally…
4. 15 Christopher St
Fifteen Christopher Street is marked by its history as the home of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop. Founded by Craig Rodwell in nineteen seventy-three, this storefront was the first bookstore in the United States dedicated specifically…
5. Christopher Park
Christopher Park is defined by a heavy iron fence that has enclosed its triangular grounds for over one hundred and thirty years. This small space, measuring less than one-seventh of an acre, emerged in eighteen thirty-seven after a…
6. The Stonewall Inn
The Stonewall Inn occupies two modest buildings at fifty-one and fifty-three Christopher Street, distinguished by a continuous, fifty-foot-wide facade that has remained largely unchanged since the nineteen sixties. Originally constructed…
7. Marie's Crisis Café
Marie’s Crisis Café is marked by a red-and-white striped awning over the door of a white brick building on Grove Street. It operates as a basement piano bar, a space known for nightly sing-alongs of Broadway show tunes. The name is a…
8. Cherry Lane Theatre
The Cherry Lane Theatre at thirty-eight Commerce Street is marked by a modest, three-story brick façade and a black awning. Built in eighteen-seventeen as a farm silo, the building later functioned as a brewery, a tobacco warehouse, and a…
9. Christopher Street Pier
Christopher Street Pier is a nine-hundred-foot-long wooden deck extending into the Hudson River, recognizable by its expansive grass lawn and the steel shade structures that punctuate the walkway. Once a busy shipping terminal for…