Greenwich Village: The LGBTQ Community Finds a Haven

New York has always had its bohemian “underground” going back to Pfaff’s Saloon in the 1850s—literally underground—with frequenters like poet Walt Whitman and his mate Adah Menken. Join Barry Lewis for a look at Greenwich Village and its environs, tracing how the city’s gay community found safe haven among New York’s “free-love” bohemians of the early 20th century, then blossomed again in a new era’s openness in the post-Stonewall New York of the 1970s.

Barry Lewis is an architectural historian who specializes in European and American architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries.

LOCATION

The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

PURCHASING TICKETS

By phone: Contact New-York Historical’s in-house call center at (212) 485-9268. Call center is open 9 am–5 pm daily.
Online: Click on the orange “Buy Tickets” button at the top of this page.
In person: Advance tickets may be purchased on site at New-York Historical’s Admissions desk during museum hours.











When: Tue., May. 28, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Where: New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
212-873-3400
Price: $48
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New York has always had its bohemian “underground” going back to Pfaff’s Saloon in the 1850s—literally underground—with frequenters like poet Walt Whitman and his mate Adah Menken. Join Barry Lewis for a look at Greenwich Village and its environs, tracing how the city’s gay community found safe haven among New York’s “free-love” bohemians of the early 20th century, then blossomed again in a new era’s openness in the post-Stonewall New York of the 1970s.

Barry Lewis is an architectural historian who specializes in European and American architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries.

LOCATION

The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

PURCHASING TICKETS

By phone: Contact New-York Historical’s in-house call center at (212) 485-9268. Call center is open 9 am–5 pm daily.
Online: Click on the orange “Buy Tickets” button at the top of this page.
In person: Advance tickets may be purchased on site at New-York Historical’s Admissions desk during museum hours.

Buy tickets/get more info now