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each windowless cell dark except from the glimmer from above through wire-netting shredded with dust and containing a narrow workhouse bed... a casual whisper, a sigh lighter than thistle-down, a smothered moan. Then appeasement: the snap of a lighter as two strangers sat back for a smoke and polite murmured small talk, such as they might exchange in a gym.
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efforts by paneling covering the windows. Between 80 and 100 patrons left the building; the indefinite number was because the club did not have registration at the time. Most of the victims were identified by friends rather than family. Accounts said costs were $ 5 for a locker or $ 7 for a cubicle ($ 6 and $ 9.25 on weekends).
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On May 25, 1977, nine patrons (ages 17 to 40) were killed in a fire: seven from smoke inhalation, one from respiratory burns, and one who had jumped from an upper floor. Contributing factors were the deteriorating conditions and the lack of sprinklers. Firefighters said they were thwarted in rescue
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It was patronized largely by homosexuals by the 1920s and became the community's preeminent social venue from the 1930s onward. It was patronized by gay men before the 1920s and by the 1930s had a reputation as the "classiest, safest, and best known of the baths," eventually picking up the nickname
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Up some stairs at a desk an ashen bored man in shirtsleeves produced a ledger crammed with illegible scrawls. I added mine, paid my dollar, was handed a key, towel and robe, hung the key on my wrist and mounted to a large floor as big as a warehouse and as high: intersecting rows of private rooms
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The entrance was lit by two green lamps, giving it, according to patrons, the appearance of a police precinct, and giving rise to speculation that it was owned for a period by the
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Despite total destruction of the top two floors, the two floors were rebuilt, and the baths reopened. However, it was closed in April 1986 by New York City mayor
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A Sympathetic Planning Hierarchy for Redundant Churches: A Comparison of Continued Use and Reuse in Denmark, England and the United States of America]
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encouraged a police raid in which the manager and nine customers were arrested for lewd behavior. It was raided again in 1920 with 15 arrests.
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that operated from 1888 to 1986. The venue occupied an adaptively reused church building and was the site of a deadly fire.
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founded by financier James Everard in 1888 in a former church building, designed in a typical late-19th-century
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Truman Capote: in which various friends, enemies, acquaintances, and detractors recall his turbulent career
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Queer street: rise and fall of an American culture, 1947-1985 : excursions in the mind of the life
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On November 28, 1898, a soldier was found dead in his room at the baths and gas was suspected.
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Scott Bronstein, "4 New York Bathhouses Still Operate Under City's Program of Inspections,"
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9 Killed in Bath Fire Identified by Friends - New York Times - May 27, 1977
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Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America
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during the city's campaign to close such venues during the AIDS epidemic.
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A Day and a Night at the Baths by Michael Rumaker Grey Fox Press (1979)
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Policing public sex: queer politics and the future of AIDS activism
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40°44′43″N 73°59′21″W / 40.7454°N 73.9892°W / 40.7454; -73.9892
gay bathhouse
New York City
Victorian Turkish bath
Victorian
Romanesque Revival architectural style
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York
Emlyn Williams
Alfred Lunt
Clifton Webb
Noël Coward
Lorenz Hart
Truman Capote
Charles James
Gore Vidal
Rudolf Nureyev
Truman Capote
Ned Rorem
Ed Koch
Michael Rumaker
Dancer from the Dance
Andrew Holleran
Faggots
Larry Kramer
James McCourt
Todd Verow

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