Nightclubbing | Human Sexual Response, 1980
Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong continue sorting through their archives of punk-era concert footage as it’s digitized for the Downtown Collection at N.Y.U.’s Fales Library. It is hard to overstate the...
View ArticleIn Williamsburg, A Hidden Refuge For the Undocumented and Incurable
Casa Betsaida’s chapel. (Photo: Mary Reinholz) The former convent on Hewes Street is a mystery house: there’s no sign outside announcing its name or mission. People walk in and out of the two-story...
View ArticleCleaner Streets, But Dirty Needles Are Still a Cause for Concern
(Photo: Amy Lombard) It was dark by the time members of the East Village walkabout group entered Tompkins Square Park, carrying plastic bags containing clean syringes, sterilized cookers and...
View ArticleThe Greenwich Village Church That Helped Women Get Illegal Abortions
This week, we present a series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. (Photo: Bill Altham) On the 16th of November in 1964, four women and four men appeared in their underwear...
View ArticleTwo Exhibitions Illuminate Queer NYC Subculture During the AIDS Epidemic
Image: © Estate of David Wojnarowicz, Democracy, 1990, Black-and-white silkscreen print, Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City A black-and-white illustration by David Wojnarowicz, on view last week at...
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