“An 'Emergency Committee Againt Harassment of Lenny Bruce' was formed over the weekend as a result of the arrest”

"Traditional watering-place for writers, longshoremen, Bohemians, pub crawlers, socialists, and just-plain-drunks, it was the kind of scene he'd dreamed of."

‘I have lived as Irish-American for 35 years. I have endured it, and it is too late in the march for me to believe we are going to become champions of humanity.’

For four decades the St. Marks watering hole was something like Cheers for locals, misfits and the resistance alike

Patrons of Roosevelt Avenue bars don’t have to choose between being gay and Latinx