…New York City’s draft riots, five days of rioting, looting, burning, and wanton violence that erupted after the Federal government instituted the Draft Act of 1863, the first instance of…
Read More…Draft Riots. These civil disturbances rocked New York City and revealed a deep racial and class divide that existed in New York City in 1863, one that was particularly visible…
Read More…ablaze but was saved by a passing fire company heading uptown on another call. You can read more about the Draft Riots and their deadly impact on our communities here….
Read More…resent the draft, and fear that their jobs would be taken by the city’s black men. Draft Riots on First Avenue. Photo Courtesy of NYPL Digital Collections. On the day…
Read More…via Wikimedia 10. Draft Riots Refuge, 92 Grove Street During the deadly 1863 Draft Riots, the largest civil insurrection in American history during which hundreds of African Americans were killed and thousands…
Read More…violent uprisings commonly referred to as the Draft Riots. Understanding the social and economic causes of these riots, as well as the effects of the riots on subsequent New York…
Read More…in American history, spreading throughout Manhattan. Hundreds of people were killed in these Draft Riots and many more were seriously injured; African Americans were the frequent target of the rioters’…
Read More…the form of protest and riots in Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. These protests reflected somewhat the shifting nature of the park and the neighborhood at the time….
Read MoreThe Attica Prison Riots, which took place September 9th through 13th, 1971, rocked the entire country. The bloodiest prison disturbance in recent American history, the riot was unplanned but ignited…
Read More…conflict resolution: holiday parade riots. Specifically, Irish immigrants clashed with opposing political forces at parades. While parades may seem a strange venue for physical confrontations, Irish parades have long been…
Read More…to be known as the Stonewall Riots or Uprising, which is considered to be a major turning point in the gay rights movement, or in many ways the birth of…
Read More…Civil War Draft Riots. Two days before the start of the riots, on July 11, 1863, the Conscription Act went into effect; it required all male citizens between the ages…
Read MoreWe’ve just added our first new oral history of 2021. Michael E. Levine is an urban planner who worked as the NYC Department of City Planning’s Community Board #2 liaison beginning in…
Read More…Draft Riots of 1863 which erupted among Irish immigrants and African Americans over the first federal draft. Draft Riots of 1863 The 69th regiment, a.k.a. the “Irish Brigade” gained fame…
Read More…Greenwich Villager who led the church’s response to the deadly Draft Riots of 1863, and who preached from the pulpit right here on Sixth Avenue in our neighborhood. St. James…
Read More…Liberia, and the West Indies. He also endorsed Black Nationalism in the United States. Draft Riots on First Avenue. Photo Courtesy of NYPL Digital Collections. From 1859 to 1863, and…
Read More…Civil War Draft Riots On July 11, 1863, the federal Conscription Act had taken effect, requiring all male citizens between the ages of 20 and 35 and all unmarried men…
Read More…Stonewall Inn, 1969, taken by Diana Davies. Photo courtesy of the NYPL Digital Collections. Almost exactly two years before the prison closed, the Stonewall Riots erupted just down the street…
Read More…infamous draft riots of the Civil War, the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and…
Read More…History at 92 Grove Street In an interesting twist of history, the address 92 Grove Street also played a role during the 1863 Draft Riots, the largest civil insurrection in…
Read More…far-reaching social impact. The Stonewall Riots were not a one-night occurrence, but a five-day series of protests between June 28 and July 3rd. These riots marked a pivotal transition from…
Read More…new works throughout its tenure. This programming exists within Danspace’s various projects, including the Commissioning and Presenting program, “DraftWork” series, and “Platform Series.” The Commissioning and Presenting leg of Danspace’s…
Read More…100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, any time is a good time to highlight their history and their profound connections to our neighborhood. Aftermath of the 1908 race riots in…
Read MoreLast year’s Pride Parade outside the Stonewall Inn, via Wiki Commons In late June, New York is in the throes of celebrating the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, three nights of…
Read MoreVia NPCA on Flickr Millions converge in New York City each year in late June to celebrate events which took place in and outside of a Greenwich Village bar in 1969. The Stonewall Riots are not…
Read More…the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s draft proposed boundariess. As promised, in anticipation of Monday’s night’s public property owner’s meeting on the draft proposal, today we are looking at what’s in. Hint:…
Read More…rowhouse with a remarkable place in our nation’s history as the only documented site of the Underground Railroad in Manhattan and a target of the New York City Draft Riots…
Read More…the Civil Rights Movement in the Village, you can click on these past Off the Grid posts: A Civil Rights Activist and the Café Society The 1863 Draft Riots and…
Read More…1863 Draft Riots, which targeted several locations in the South Village, the area was home to nearly a quarter of the city’s African-American population. After the Civil War, the community…
Read More…New York City Draft Riots in July of 1863, and Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession through Union Square on April 25, 1865. The city and its citizens felt the heated emotions,…
Read More…Off the Grid blog posts: Spring Street Presbyterian Church (an early abolitionist congregation) Marking African-American History Month in the Village African Americans in the South Village Civil War Draft Riots…
Read More…of Minetta Lane and Minetta Street Sites of the 1863 “Draft Riots,” the largest civil disturbance in American history which resulted in the deaths of at least 119 people, mostly…
Read More…to the Draft Riots, the police slaying of Michael Stewart, and the first settlement of Free Blacks in North America here. (If you’re wondering why these don’t appear on the…
Read More…it moved temporarily to the Thompson Street area, where the Draft Riots took place. In the second half of the 19th century, the church was led by the Reverend William…
Read More…and rice, all products of slave labor; and worked with local newspapers to spread the cause of abolition. When the 1863 Draft Riots erupted, and hundreds of white working-class men…
Read More…to the sites of the deadly 1863 Draft Riots: Our Greenwich Village Historic District Map+Tours offers an African American tour with 25 sites in the Greenwich Village Historic District connected to significant…
Read More…deadly 1863 Draft Riots. Our Greenwich Village Historic District Map + Tours offers an African American tour with 25 sites in the Greenwich Village Historic District connected to significant African…
Read More…need following violent attacks like the Draft Riots, and collaborated with local newspapers to convey to white and black New Yorkers a desire to move forward living in an atmosphere…
Read More…and aiding African American victims of the deadly 1863 Draft Riots and those seeking to escape attack. In 1875, the church moved to 140 Sixth Avenue (present-day 450 Sixth Avenue)…
Read More…facto state-sanctioned domestic terrorism. Photo of the 1917 Silent March, from NYPL via Wikimedia Commons In 1917, following the brutal East St. Louis race riots in which between 40 and 250 African Americans…
Read More…just after the Stonewall Riots, 186 Spring Street, became a “gay activist commune.” Three of the men who lived there were Jim Owles, Arnie Kantrowitz, and Bruce Voeller. All three…
Read More…to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Stonewall Inn and Stonewall Riots, 53 Christopher Street Stonewall Inn This site and the disturbances which surrounded it are considered the…
Read More…transgender community and its struggle for equality. Stonewall 45 is made up of panels that combine text and imagery to tell the story of the Stonewall Riots and their significance:…
Read More…were involved in the Stonewall Riots and movements in the Village to care for LGBTQ folks who were living on the margins. Sylvia Rivera recalled the Stonewall Riots, saying that…
Read MoreLast week the Landmarks Preservation Commission revealed their draft proposed boundaries for Phase II of our proposed South Village Historic District, and announced that the public “property owner’s” meeting to…
Read More…and Speaker Quinn today — click HERE) BY ANDREW BERMAN | On April 15, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public meeting to present its draft proposed boundaries for a…
Read More…of our city, but disheartened by the growing number of billboards that were impinging upon it. To this end, in 1913, he drafted the “Patrimony of the People Clause,” which…
Read More…raised more men, money, and materiel for the war, and no city raised more hell against it. It was a city of patriots, war heroes, and abolitionists, but simultaneously a…
Read More…special, even unique, place in the long struggle for lesbian and gay rights, with the June 1969 riots against police at the Stonewall Inn, a bar in the West Village,…
Read More…Thompson and Sullivan Streets from 1824 to 2012. Following the 1969 Stonewall Riots, the house became a “gay commune” of sorts in which some of the most important activist figures…
Read More…Stonewall Riots, which took place in 1969, the same year that the historic district was designated. At a bar which is – very proudly – quite centrally located in the…
Read MoreOn June 24, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raided by New York City Police, four nights before the infamous raids that sparked the Stonewall Riots. This was not the first…
Read More…later copied throughout the world. 2. Stonewall Riots/Birth of the modern LGBT rights movement At the time, it was derisively referred to as the “hairpin drop heard around the world”…
Read More…riots of 1969, Martello, who identified as gay, attended an organizing meeting of the Mattachine Society. While the group had gained increasing popularity among mostly gay men after Stonewall, Martello soon realized his differences with…
Read More…In 1969, the Stonewall Riots catalyzed Rivera’s participation in the Gay Liberation Movement. She is famously quoted from that night as saying that “while I did not throw the first…
Read More…particular geographic area. Stonewall Riots As we celebrate Pride in New York City, we are reminded of its beginnings at the Stonewall Inn. Some of the key the leaders of…
Read More…it turned into a frequent site of high-profile dissent and conflagrations. These included the bread riots of 1857, the labor riots of 1874 (the largest demonstration the city had ever…
Read More…and the Black Panthers. A young Sylvia Rivera poses in front of the camera. Photo source: Seattle Pride Stonewall Riots Just days before her eighteenth birthday, Rivera participated in the…
Read More…to be appropriate to the building and the historic district.” Full House. We had already drafted and re-drafted language, and received Mr. Milstein’s edits. We had measured the wall in…
Read More…the name, you probably are familiar with his work. “Ferriss was the master draftsman of his time of the American metropolis, both real and ideal,” according to Carol Willis, Executive…
Read More…York’s Union Square again on charges of “peddling bills without a license,” distributing birth control literature, an conspiracy to violate the Draft Act between 1910 and 1917. Goldman’s arrest in Union…
Read More…could not get anyone to publish. Draft after draft, Merton’s hero could not figure out what he wanted to do, as Merton himself struggled to find his way. Recounting this…
Read More…license,” distributing birth control literature, and conspiracy to violate the Draft Act between 1910 and 1917. Goldman’s arrest in Union Square on February 11, 1916, was a result of her…
Read More…ghost of his daughter, Theodosia Burr Alston, who is often seen roaming the restaurant, mourning her tragic disappearance at sea. Waitstaff and diners alike have reported unexplained cold drafts, flickering…
Read More…the United Nations. A year later she was elected as the chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights which drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UN General…
Read More…the United Nations. A year later she was elected as the chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights which drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UN General…
Read More…Hugh Ferriss was perhaps best known as the master draftsman of the early 20th-century American metropolis whose drawings helped New Yorkers envision their city’s future. Two of the many drawings…
Read More…1970’s and early 1980’s which made it so extraordinary. Shortly after the June 1969 Stonewall Riots, the house became a commune of sorts for gay activists, mostly those connected to…
Read More…free draft beer or soda with purchase of sandwich and fries! Julius’ Bar 159 West 10th Street According to bar lore (and the resident bar historian, Tom Bernardin), Julius’ Bar…
Read More…introduce the first federal gay rights legislation in 1975. Toward that end, the Task Force was instrumental in drafting and securing the introduction of the very first federal gay rights…
Read More…he had previously refused to do. That same year an anti-lynching bill was introduced in the House based on a bill drafted by NAACP co-founder Albert E. Pillsbury. The bill…
Read More…To address these concerns, Congress drafted twelve amendments to the Constitution. Ten of these amendments were ratified as the Bill of Rights and added to the Constitution on December 15,…
Read More…that ends its route where the gay-rights movement began, Greenwich Village. By now everyone knows the story of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that happened on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village,…
Read More…was eventually captured and sentenced again. He participated in the 1971 Attica prison riots, and argued before parole boards that the notoriety of his crime made him a victim. He…
Read More…prisons twice per year. Not long after that came the Attica prison riots. On September 10, 1971, David was one of the few outside observers who was invited into the…
Read More…large country mansion stable, many people now primarily view the building as the home of the gay bar, the raid upon which sparked the Stonewall riots, protests, and demonstrations which…
Read More…his camera and be off for the latest photo op. An unidentifed group of young poeple celebrate outside the boarded-up Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher Street) after riots over the weekend…
Read MoreAstor Place Riots, from www.boweryboyshistory.com Recently we have been running a series in Off the Grid on the Village as the birthplace of modern drama. NoHo has its own history…
Read More…folk musicians were embroiled in the Beatnik Riots. Washington Square was a key site in giving beatniks and other offbeat Villagers a place to call home – and have their voices heard. Today,…
Read MoreLesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village. The…
Read MoreGay Activist Alliance Firehouse. On December 21, 1969, the Gay Activist Alliance (GAA) was founded. Almost exactly six months after the Stonewall Riots, the group was founded by Marty Robinson, Jim…
Read More…mentioned nowhere in the designation report for the district, which was published two months prior in April (though frankly even if the Stonewall Riots took place two months or even…
Read More…park has a long and colorful history of riots, rebellions, and political protests. Many may not know that Washington Square Park once had cars running through it. The Greenwich Village community…
Read More…include connections to LGBT figures and movements (the Stonewall Riots were in fact still four years away). In many ways this had changed by 2013. After beginning to fold in…
Read More…on the Stonewall Inn. The riots that followed over the course of three days are widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the modern gay, lesbian,…
Read MoreEvery June, New Yorkers and people from around the world gather in our city to celebrate Pride Month and honor the memory of the Stonewall Riots, three nights in 1969…
Read More…poetry readings, partygoers at local clubs, homeless individuals living on the street, and even drag queens at Wigstock. He also documented the Tompkins Square Riots in 1988, capturing the intensity…
Read More…the riots received substantial local and national media coverage, bringing attention to the challenges confronted by the LGBTQ+ community. Following the riots, the Oscar Wilde Bookshop became a central hub…
Read More…park has hosted community meetings, protests, and several infamous riots. The most recent one broke out on August 6, 1988, between the NYPD and a group of protesters. The initial…
Read More…beaten and attacked for presenting as female, eventually settling in the Greenwich Village’s queer enclave around Christopher Street. In 1969, the Stonewall Riots catalyzed Rivera’s participation in the Gay Liberation…
Read More…civil rights movements of the time. Her legacy would ripple throughout the Village, influencing both the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities. The Stonewall Riots of 1969 marked a pivotal moment for…
Read More…import and impact. One often overlooked but supremely important example is the April 9, 1961 Beatnik Riots in Washington Square Park. The Beat movement arose in the post-World War II…
Read MoreOn July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress declared independence from Great Britain, and in New York City the news quickly electrified both Patriots and Loyalists. Only five days later, on…
Read More…images from the 1950s through the 1980s capture a downtown alive with resistance; from anti–Vietnam War demonstrations to civil rights marches, and women’s liberation protests to the Stonewall Riots, Fred…
Read More…the House Judiciary Committee for the right of women to vote. Other noted compatriots of Susan B. Anthony were Villagers Crystal Eastman, Julia Ward Howe, and Clara Lemlich. Women’s Suffrage would…
Read More…War II Draft Registration Card from 1942. Looking at building files and tax records I was able to offer Anna Maria the following chronology for the building: 1911 – Owner:…
Read More…in protest against the draft. In 1919, she was deported to Russia with approximately 250 other alien radicals. There is much more to explore on Emma Goldman beyond her connection…
Read More…Court Building What kind of talent created such a building? James Mace Farnsworth worked as a draftsman for Calvert Vaux, the man who, along with Frederick Law Olmsted, designed Central…
Read More…for writers, artists, and musicians. Notable residents of the building included Willa Cather, John Dos Passos, Alan Seeger, and Stephen Crane (in fact Crane drafted his masterpiece Civil War novel…
Read More…Johnson, a cook employed by the Bowery Branch, was arrested for draft-dodging after appearing as the model for a War Bonds Advertisement. And finally, we have Abe Gluck, an elevator…
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