"The most famous gay bar in the world, Stonewall gave its name to the riots in June 1969, which took place just outside this nondescript drinking den after it was raided by the police in the early hours of the morning. Those riots brought the LGBTQ+ rights movement in America and beyond into the spotlight. Though the site is a designated national monument, the Stonewall Inn operating now has no connection with the previous namesake tenant that shuttered not long after the riots; the current iteration, which retains the same façade, opened in 1990. It’s a moving moment to stand drinking here and realize this single bar’s role in helping bring LGBTQ+ people, and their rights, into the mainstream. There is a cluster of gay bars around the triangular green space of Christopher Park here: after a drink at Stonewall, pub-crawl to the Duplex and the Monster, which are also neighborhood mainstays." - Mark Ellwood