HISTORIC SITES

137 West 71st Street

James Baldwin Residence

Residences
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81 Horatio Street

James Baldwin Residence

Residences
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St. Nicholas Park

James Baldwin Lawn

Public Spaces
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351 West 18th Street

James Baldwin School

Cultural & Educational Institutions
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167 West 12th Street

James Beard Residence & Foundation

Residences
Project Update

October 23, 2022

A Visit to Ferncliff Cemetery

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Seventh Avenue (35th to 41st Streets)

Fashion Walk of Fame

Public Spaces
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246 West 44th Street

St. James Theater (originally Erlanger Theater)

Performance Venues
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138-146 West 48th Street

James Earl Jones Theater (originally Cort Theater)

Performance Venues
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222 West 23rd Street

Chelsea Hotel

Residences
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515 Malcolm X Boulevard

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Cultural & Educational Institutions
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170 West 130th Street

National Headquarters for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Organization & Community Spaces
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208 West 41st Street

Nederlander Theater (originally National Theater)

Performance Venues
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517 East 233rd Street

Woodlawn Cemetery

Public Spaces
HISTORIC SITES

242-250 West 45th Street

Bernard B. Jacobs Theater (originally Royale Theater)

Performance Venues
Events

November 15, 2016 | 6:00 - 8:00 P.M.

LGBT History on the Upper West Side

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243 West 47th Street

Ethel Barrymore Theater

Performance Venues
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103-105 West 135th Street

135th Street Branch, New York Public Library

Cultural & Educational Institutions
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St. Nicholas Park

Hamilton Grange

Residences
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337 Bleecker Street

Lorraine Hansberry Residence

Residences
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221 West 44th Street

Shubert Theater

Performance Venues
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254 West 54th Street

Studio 54 (originally Gallo Opera House)

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants
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269 West 16th Street

Gilbert Baker & “Raise the Rainbow” Workshop

Organization & Community Spaces
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715 Ocean Terrace

Staten Island Community College

Cultural & Educational Institutions
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124-130 West 43rd Street

Stephen Sondheim Theater (originally Henry Miller’s Theater)

Performance Venues
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230 West 49th Street

Eugene O’Neill Theater (originally Forrest Theater)

Performance Venues
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Kingsborough Houses

Richmond Barthé & “Green Pastures: The Walls of Jericho”

Public Spaces
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244 East 49th Street

Katharine Hepburn Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

West 43rd Street (Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues)

Anti-Police Brutality Protest in Response to the Blue’s Bar Raids

Public Spaces
Project Update

October 7, 2019

#LGBTHistoryMonth

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881 Seventh Avenue

Carnegie Hall: Studio Towers

Residences
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1970 West Farms Road

Lorraine Hansberry Academy Public School 214

Cultural & Educational Institutions
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2609 East 7th Street

Margaret Mead Public School 209

Cultural & Educational Institutions
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190-20 109th Road

Lorraine Hansberry Public School 118

Cultural & Educational Institutions
HISTORIC SITES

243-259 West 52nd Street

August Wilson Theater (originally Guild Theater)

Performance Venues
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244 West 144th Street

Countee Cullen Public School 194

Cultural & Educational Institutions
HISTORIC SITES

768 Fifth Avenue

The Plaza

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants
HISTORIC SITES

104 West 136th Street

Countee Cullen Branch, New York Public Library

Cultural & Educational Institutions
HISTORIC SITES

112 Waverly Place

Lorraine Hansberry Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

189 Bleecker Street

San Remo Café

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants
HISTORIC SITES

208 West 13th Street

LGBT Community Center

Organization & Community Spaces
HISTORIC SITES

28 East 125th Street

Mt. Morris Baths

Stores & Businesses
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Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza

Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza / Katharine Hepburn Garden

Public Spaces
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62 Clark Street

Maurice Kenny Residence

Residences
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400 and 484 West 43rd Street

Manhattan Plaza

Residences
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1958 McGraw Avenue

Irving Schwartz Residence

Residences
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43 West 46th Street

Herbert Askanas Residence

Residences
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10 Shore Boulevard

Yale Eisenberg Residence

Residences
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41 East 57th Street

George Platt Lynes at the Pierre Matisse Gallery

Stores & Businesses
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82 East 4th Street

Club 82

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants
HISTORIC SITES

58 Bleecker Street

New York Infirmary for Indigent Women & Children

Medical Facilities
HISTORIC SITES

3 Hyatt Street

Mayfair Bar & Grill

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants
HISTORIC SITES

123 Androvette Street

Jimmy Zappalorti Lane

Public Spaces
HISTORIC SITES

190 Meisner Avenue

Marr Lodge

Residences
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56 Greenwich Avenue

Uncle Charlie’s

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants
HISTORIC SITES

87 Christopher Street

H.M. Koutoukas Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

203-217 West 46th Street

Lunt-Fontanne Theater (originally Globe Theater)

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

5 West 63rd Street

Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the West Side YMCA

Stores & Businesses
HISTORIC SITES

324 East 14th Street

Jackie Curtis Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

100 East 50th Street

Cole Porter Residence at the Waldorf Towers

Residences
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Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

111 West 44th Street

Belasco Theater (originally Stuyvesant Theater)

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

253 West 125th Street

Apollo Theater

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

1133 Broadway

Mattachine Society & Daughters of Bilitis Offices

Organization & Community Spaces
HISTORIC SITES

82-70 Austin Street

Kitty Genovese & Mary Ann Zielonko Residence

Residences
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150 West 55th Street

Carl Van Vechten Residence

Residences
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639 East 169th Street

Mabel Hampton & Lillian Foster Residence

Residences
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Wall Street & Broadway / 11 Wall Street

ACT UP Demonstrations on Wall Street

Public Spaces
HISTORIC SITES

180 West 135th Street

Harlem YMCA

Organization & Community Spaces
HISTORIC SITES

205 West 57th Street

Leonard Bernstein Residence at the Osborne Apartments

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

28 West 28th Street

Everard Baths

Stores & Businesses
HISTORIC SITES

109 Bank Street

Jimmie Daniels & Rex Madsen Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

220 West 43rd Street

New York Area Council of the Mattachine Society, Inc. at Avlon Studios

Organization & Community Spaces
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23 Riverside Drive

Tony Segura Residence

Residences
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338 West 11th Street

Robert Rygor Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

159 Bleecker Street

Founding of The League at the Amato Opera Theater

Organization & Community Spaces
HISTORIC SITES

11 West 17th Street

GAY Newspaper Offices

Stores & Businesses
HISTORIC SITES

416 West 146th Street

Amaza Lee Meredith Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

835 Washington Street

Mineshaft

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants
HISTORIC SITES

500 West 14th Street

Anvil

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants
HISTORIC SITES

121 Charles Street

Margaret Wise Brown Writing Studio

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

432 West 14th Street

Bar Room 432 / Mother

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants
HISTORIC SITES

70 Beach Street

Park Villa II

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants
HISTORIC SITES

215-223 West 49th Street

Ambassador Theater

Performance Venues
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29 West 9th Street

Maurice Sendak Residence & Studio

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

114 West 116th Street

Jimmie Daniels

Bars, Clubs & Restaurants
HISTORIC SITES

89 East 2nd Street

Alvin Baltrop Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

2545 Gunther Avenue

Michelangelo Junior High School 144

Cultural & Educational Institutions
HISTORIC SITES

235 West 46th Street

Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe Nightclub

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

1260 Sixth Avenue

Gay Activists Alliance Zap at Radio City Music Hall

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

25 Hyatt Street

Staten Island AIDS Task Force & EAGLE Headquarters

Organization & Community Spaces
HISTORIC SITES

1 Fifth Avenue

Sam Wagstaff Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

320 Manhattan Avenue

Georgette Harvey & Musa Williams Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

1000 Richmond Terrace

Sailors’ Snug Harbor

Cultural & Educational Institutions
HISTORIC SITES

139-141 West 44th Street

Hudson Theater

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

1681 Broadway

Broadway Theater (interior)

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

249 West 45th Street

Imperial Theater

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

244-254 West 52nd Street

Neil Simon Theater (originally Alvin Theater)

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

227 West 42nd Street

Todd Haimes Theater (interior) (originally Selwyn Theater)

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

256 West 47th Street

Lena Horne Theater (originally Mansfield Theater)

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

235-243 West 44th Street

Broadhurst Theater

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

209 East 61st Street

Montgomery Clift Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

261-265 West 47th Street

Samuel J. Friedman Theater (originally Biltmore Theater)

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

9 St. Luke's Place

Arthur Laurents & Tom Hatcher Residence

Residences
HISTORIC SITES

252 West 45th Street

John Golden Theater (originally Theatre Masque)

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

149-157 West 45th Street

Lyceum Theater

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

220-228 West 48th Street

Longacre Theater

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

245-257 West 44th Street

Majestic Theater

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

234 West 45th Street

Gerald Schoenfeld Theater (originally Plymouth Theater)

Performance Venues
HISTORIC SITES

603 3rd Street

Arnold Lobel Residence

Residences