GAY STREET, Greenwich Village
Between Waverly and Christopher just west of 6th Avenue is a short dogleg called Gay Street, which contains a number of handsome Federal-style buildings and has a varied lore. The name of the street predates Greenwich Village’s gay community by several decades, but the derivation is in dispute. In Naming New York, Sanna Feirstein claims it was named [...]
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