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MAPPING LGBT HISTORY
DON’T LET JOINT PAIN WEAR YOU DOWN Strategies and treatments for dealing with the most common form of arthritis. P. 6
SOCIETY Historic sites project highlights key NYC landmarks for activism and culture BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
As New York City prepares to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising this June, one group is seeking to bring attention to the often underappreciated past of the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community through a focus on historic landmarks. The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, launched in 2015 by a group of historians and preservationists, has set out to document the breadth and diversity of New York City’s LGBT culture in an interactive online map featuring research on an evergrowing list of significant sites that currently features over 150 entries. The Stonewall Inn — site of the 1969 clashes between gay New Yorkers and police that helped spark the LGBT rights movement in New York City and across the country — is, of course, included on the map, as are a number of other prominent Greenwich Village sites that have made the neighborhood a hub of LGBT culture and activism for decades. But part of the project’s goal is to broaden the public’s understanding of LGBT history to encompass sometimes overlooked sites that also played key roles in shaping activism and culture.
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HUNDREDS PROTEST ABORTION LAWS Demonstrators gathered in downtown Manhattan to oppose anti-abortion legislation. P. 5 A rendering of the gymnasium to be built on the sixth floor of a new pre-k facility near Eleanor Roosevelt High School. Image: NYC SCA
A GYM TO CALL THEIR OWN SCHOOLS City announces plans to build new gymnasium space for Eleanor Roosevelt H.S. BY MICHAEL GAROFALO
A longstanding wish of students at Eleanor Roosevelt High School will soon be fulfilled. City officials have announced plans to build a new gymnasium for the East 76th Street high school, which has long held physical education classes in an undersized dance studio and relied on neighboring schools’ gym spaces
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We have some very talented athletes at this school, so I’m very excited and thankful that they’ll have the opportunity to have their own gym.” Sadie Wenger, senior member of ERHS girls basketball team
to host its sports teams. The new gym will be located just down the street from ERHS, on the sixth floor of a new pre-kindergarten facility at 355 East 76th St. slated open in September. Work on the $6.5 million gymnasium project will begin in December of this year and is expected to be completed by 2021. The May 23 announcement of the project marked the culmination of a multi-year campaign for new gym space that brought together students, parents, staff and elected leaders.
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WHEN ANDY SACHS MET DON DRAPER Office sabotage is the subject of a novel that places “The Devil Wears Prada” in the “Mad Men” era. P. 8 Jewish women and girls light up the world by lighting the Shabbat candles every Friday evening 18 minutes before sunset. Friday, May 31– 8:02 pm. For more information visit www.chabaduppereastrside.com.
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