The Intimate City: Walking New York by Michael Kimmelman

Author:Michael Kimmelman [Kimmelman, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2022-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

What’s a taxpayer?

A building built to cover the site’s property taxes until the owner could afford to construct something more extravagant. There had been a plan to put up an apartment house on this corner, designed by George & Edward Blum, but with the Depression it was never built and instead we still have this wonderful two-story 1932 Art Deco building, whose first tenant was Stewart’s Cafeteria. Stewart’s was a popular chain of the era and this branch became a famous haunt for a flamboyantly gay and lesbian crowd, performing for tourists who would sometimes stand three or four people deep, staring through the windows, as if at exotic animals in a zoo. The place shut down after a few years when the manager was convicted and jailed for operating a “public nuisance.” The district attorney described “certain persons of the homosexual type and certain persons of the Lesbian type” who engaged in “Sapphism and diverse other lewd, obscene, indecent, and disgusting acts.” Stewart’s was immortalized in a painting by Paul Cadmus, whom we’ll get to shortly.

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