Roland Hemond Meritorious Service Award
Roland Hemond has served professional baseball for over 50 years. Won the prestigious major league baseball Executive of the Year award three times during his career and regarded as the...
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Site of the San Remo Café
Site of the San Remo Café (1925 - 1967)In its post-war heyday, the San Remo was a meeting place for an unparalleled array of figures from the Beat movement, the New York School of poets...
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- macdougal street
- greenwich village
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- new york city
- allen ginsberg
- dylan thomas
- jack kerouac
- william s. burroughs
- miles davis
- frank o’hara
- judith malina
- jackson pollock
- james baldwin
- tennessee williams
- gore vidal
- james agee
- william styron
- john cage
- merce cunningham
- larry rivers
- the beat movement
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In Memory of Weldon Hogg, Dec 5, 1914 - Nov 14, 1998
Grand Master Peter G. Urban, Ph.D.
By Nightscream (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Baldwin Apple Monument
THIS MONUMENT MARKS THE SITE OF THE FIRST BALDWIN APPLE TREE FOUND GROWING WILD NEAR HERE. IT FELL IN THE GALE OF 1815. THE APPLE FIRST KNOWN AS THE BUTTERS, WOODPECKER OR PECKER APPLE WAS...
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Civil Rights Freedom Riders
Civil Rights Freedom Riders. May 20, 1961. On May 20, 1961, a group of black and white SNCC members led by John Lewis left Birmingham bound for Montgomery on a Greyhound bus. They were determined...
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- john lewis
- freedom rides
- montgomery
- alabama
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- civil rights...
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Frank O'Hara (Greenwich Village)
Frank O'Hara (1926 - 1966)The influential American poet Frank O’Hara lived at 441 East Ninth Street from 1959 to 1963. O’Hara was a leading member of the New York School of poetry as well as...
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- lunch poems
- the new amer...
- allen ginsberg
- amiri baraka
- joe lesueur
- larry rivers
- joan mitchell
- robert rauschenberg
- robert motherwell
- jane freilicher
- jackson pollock
- willem de kooning
- franz kline
- grace hartigan
- fairfield porter
- michael goldberg
- abstract exp...
- museum of mo...
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- art curator
- art critic
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James Baldwin (Greenwich Village)
James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)The great American writer James Baldwin lived in an apartment here from 1958 through 1961. The power and eloquence of Baldwin’s varied works impacted ideas about...
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- horatio street
- greenwich vi...
- nyc
- new york city
- another country
- giovanni's room
- the fire next time
- go tell it o...
- notes of a n...
- nobody knows my name
- i am not your negro
- medgar evers
- malcolm x
- martin luther king
- jr.
- richard wright
- william f. buckley
- nina simone
- langston hughes
- lorraine hansberry
- maya angelou
- toni morrison
- beauford delaney
- richard avedon
- marlon brando
- harry belafonte
- sidney poitier
- josephine baker
- miles davis
- ray charles
- yves montand
- robert kennedy
- john f. kennedy
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- harlem renaissance
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988)From 1983 to 1988 renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked here, a former stable owned by friend and mentor Andy Warhol. Basquiat’s paintings...
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- great jones street
- noho
- noho histori...
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- new york city
- andy warhol
- keith haring
- kenny scarf
- julian schnabel
- al diaz
- madonna
- debby harry
- david bowie
- annina nosei gallery
- mary boone gallery
- gagosian gallery
- galerie brun...
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- the mudd club
- max's kansas city
- samo© graffiti
- american gra...
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- 1981 indepen...
- 1981 rené ri...
Site of First PFLAG Meeting
Site of First PFLAG Meeting In 1972, Queens school teacher Jeanne Manford walked alongside her gay son, activist Morty Manford, at the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade, carrying a sign...
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- west thirtee...
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- jeanne manford
- morty manford
- american gay...
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- lgbtq support group
- the church o...
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