23 Riverside Drive
Tony Segura Residence
Cuban-born gay rights activist Tony Segura lived in an apartment in this building facing Riverside Park on the Upper West... Learn More
16 East 8th Street
Founding of the New York Area Council of the Mattachine Society, Inc. at the Sam Morford Residence
On December 10, 1955, a group of gay men met at Sam Morford’s apartment in this building in Greenwich Village... Learn More
32-01 Vernon Boulevard
Socrates Sculpture Park
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Battery Park
Emma Lazarus Memorial Plaque
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City Hall Park
Jane Addams Memorial
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Ralph Bunche Park
Bayard Rustin Plaque
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Riverside Park
Eleanor Roosevelt Monument
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2 Hylan Boulevard
Alice Austen Park
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East Houston Street & Baruch Drive
Wald Playground
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Montgomery & Monroe Streets
Lillian D. Wald Playground
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Fifth Avenue & East 135th Street
Abraham Lincoln Playground
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Hamilton Place & West 141st Street
Alexander Hamilton Playground
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Flushing Avenue & Steuben Street
Steuben Playground
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Kosciuszko Street & Lewis Avenue
Eleanor Roosevelt Playground
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St. Nicholas Houses
Langston Hughes Playground
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St. Nicholas Park
James Baldwin Lawn
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Silver Lake Park
Audre Lorde Walk
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28 West 28th Street
Everard Baths
The Everard Baths, one of the most legendary of New York’s bathhouses, was a refuge for gay men probably since... Learn More
881 Seventh Avenue
Carnegie Hall
One of the premiere centers of American musical life and history, Carnegie Hall has continually featured the work and performances... Learn More
1634 Broadway
Winter Garden Theater
Opened in 1911, the Winter Garden Theater has staged multiple productions involving major LGBT performers and creators, including Vincente Minnelli,... Learn More
445-465 West Street
Westbeth Artists’ Housing
The Westbeth Artists’ Complex is an early (1968-70) conversion of industrial space into housing for artists and has been home... Learn More
500 25th Street
Green-Wood Cemetery
Many LGBT individuals are buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, one of the most beautiful landscapes in America. Here one... Learn More
Christopher Street Pier
Greenwich Village Waterfront
For over a century, the Greenwich Village waterfront along the Hudson River, including the Christopher Street Pier at West 10th... Learn More
23 Beekman Place
Katharine Cornell & Guthrie McClintic Residence / Paul Rudolph Residence
“First Lady of the Theater” Katharine Cornell and her husband, director-producer Guthrie McClintic, lived here from 1922 to 1951. Architect... Learn More
2 Fifth Avenue
Larry Kramer Residence / Edie Windsor & Dr. Thea Clara Spyer Residence
Author, playwright, and pioneering activist Larry Kramer resided in this Greenwich Village apartment for over three decades, until his death... Learn More
318 West 22nd Street
Mel Cheren Residence / Gay Men’s Health Crisis Office
This Greek Revival rowhouse was the home of innovative record executive Melvin “Mel” Cheren and Paradise Garage founder Michael Brody... Learn More
131 West 55th Street
New York City Center
From 1944 to 1966, New York City Center was the first home of New York City Opera, which featured the... Learn More
135 & 133 West 4th Street
Washington Square United Methodist Church & Parish House
The congregation of this former church was led by the pioneering, openly gay Reverend Paul M. Abels from 1973 to... Learn More
45 Rivington Street
Rivington House
In 1995, this former public school re-opened as a 219-bed nursing home for AIDS patients, the largest of its kind... Learn More
447 West 22nd Street
Elsa Gidlow Residence
Poet Elsa Gidlow, though largely associated with the San Francisco Bay Area, likely wrote her groundbreaking book of poetry On a... Learn More
1 Sheridan Square
Café Society / Ridiculous Theatrical Company
Café Society, what has been billed as New York’s first integrated club, featured many of the jazz giants and singers... Learn More
99 Clinton Street
Gay Alliance of Brooklyn at Spencer Memorial Church
The Gay Alliance of Brooklyn was one of the first gay civil rights organizations established in New York City outside... Learn More
160 Bleecker Street
Mills House No. 1 / Village Gate
Opened in 1897 as Mills House No. 1, which was intended as a wholesome residential hotel for single, working-class men,... Learn More
Fifth Avenue and East 61st Street
German-American Steuben Parade
The first German-American Steuben Parade, celebrating German-American heritage, was held in 1958. Named for the hero of the American Revolution,... Learn More
81 Horatio Street
James Baldwin Residence
From 1958 to 1961, author and civil rights activist James Baldwin rented an apartment in this building, where he continued... Learn More
223 West 42nd Street
Apollo Theater (42nd Street)
Opened as the Apollo Theater in 1920, this venue is significant as the site of the first lesbian love scene... Learn More
245-257 West 44th Street
Majestic Theater
Opened in 1927, the Majestic Theater has staged multiple productions involving major LGBT performers and creators, including Mary Martin, Adrian,... Learn More
135 Charles Street
6th Police Precinct Station House
Following the March 1970 police raid on the Snake Pit, a nearby gay bar, 167 gay men were arrested and... Learn More
221-233 West 44th Street
Shubert Theater
Opened in 1913, the Shubert Theater has staged multiple productions involving major LGBT performers and creators, including Cole Porter, Michael... Learn More
1564-1566 Broadway
Palace Theater (interior)
Opened in 1913 for vaudeville, and reopened as a legitimate theater in 1966, the Palace Theater has staged multiple productions... Learn More
235-243 West 44th Street
Broadhurst Theater
Opened in 1918, the Broadhurst Theater has staged multiple productions involving major LGBT performers and creators, including the play The Green... Learn More
214 West 42nd Street
New Amsterdam Theater
Opened in 1903, the New Amsterdam Theater has staged several productions involving major LGBT performers and creators, including Clyde Fitch,... Learn More
209 West 42nd Street
New Victory Theater (originally Theatre Republic)
Opened as the Theatre Republic in 1900, this venue staged two known works by gay playwrights, one by Clyde Fitch... Learn More
203-217 West 46th Street
Lunt-Fontanne Theater (originally Globe Theater)
Opened in 1910 as the Globe Theater, this venue has staged multiple productions involving major LGBT performers and creators, including... Learn More
1697-1699 Broadway
Ed Sullivan Theater (originally Hammerstein’s Theater)
Opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927, this venue’s first production, Golden Dawn (1927-28), featured a young Archie Leach, who would later... Learn More
217-239 West 51st Street
Mark Hellinger Theater (originally Hollywood Theater)
Opened as a movie palace called the Hollywood Theater in 1929 (converted to legitimate theater in 1934) and renamed the... Learn More
160-164 West 129th Street
Drag Balls at Imperial Lodge of Elks
A rare surviving Harlem building that hosted drag balls, the Imperial Lodge of Elks (also referred to as the Elks... Learn More
51 Clark Street
Hotel St. George
From the 1920s through the 1970s, the mammoth Hotel St. George was one of the best known centers of gay... Learn More
201 West 92nd Street
Womanbooks
Open from 1975 to 1987, Womanbooks was the second feminist bookstore in New York City. It sold books written, published,... Learn More
120 East 56th Street
Gay Activists Alliance Zap at the New York Republican State Committee Headquarters
A Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) zap at the headquarters of the New York Republican State Committee in Midtown on June... Learn More
106 Central Park South
Barbizon-Plaza Hotel
Completed in 1930, the Barbizon-Plaza Hotel was the first residential hotel equipped as a music and arts center in the... Learn More
99 Seventh Avenue South
Circle Repertory Company Theater
From its founding in 1969, by four veterans of the Caffe Cino, until it closed in 1994, the Circle Repertory... Learn More
181-189 Second Avenue
Peter Hujar Residence & Studio / David Wojnarowicz Residence & Studio
Photographer Peter Hujar was barely recognized in his lifetime but, since his death due to AIDS-related pneumonia in 1987, he... Learn More
411 East 76th Street
Eleanor Roosevelt High School
Many New York City public schools are named in honor of prominent figures in American and world history. Eleanor Roosevelt... Learn More
77 Clinton Avenue
Benjamin Banneker Academy for Community Development
Many New York City public schools are named in honor of prominent figures in American and world history. Benjamin Banneker... Learn More
143-147 West 11th Street
St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan
Beginning in the early 1980s, under the leadership of the Sisters of Charity, an organization within the Catholic Church, St.... Learn More
246 East 58th Street
Modulightor Building
The Modulightor Building, built between 1989 and 1992, was designed by iconic modernist Paul Rudolph, who incorporated new construction into... Learn More
