By Nightscream (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Site of the Fillmore East (1968 - 1971)Fans of live rock, folk, and blues music streamed through this entrance during the brief but memorable life of the Fillmore East. The great concert...
Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)The renowned pioneer of modern dance created radical new dances and rehearsed her company in this building during the 1930s and 40s. Graham also taught in a studio later...