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Source: Office for Metropolitan History, metrohistory. Dorilton Apartments, with the Stanwood Cafeteria and Bar, c. Storefront on Broadway where the Fifth Avenue Bar was located, One of the largest establishments on the Upper West Side, it could accommodate to people.

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It apparently opened aroundprimarily as a restaurant, and reportedly made about twenty percent of its business from the bar. The bar owners contested. Its decision in Stanwood United v. In the future, the SLA was required to prove that the gay men or lesbians present in a bar had engaged in conduct that was actually disorderly not simply their presenceand that the establishment had acquiesced in that behavior.

This court decision was cited in many subsequent cases, but in reality, the SLA and the police mostly ignored it, and harassment of establishments attracting a gay clientele continued for another two decades. This project is enriched by your participation! Do you have your own images of this site?

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