The Stonewall Inn

The raid and the uprising

Police raided the bar at about 1:20 am on 28 June 1969, and the uprising that followed lasted from 28 June to 3 July. A year later, on 28 June 1970, the first Pride march took place. The history page places the uprising among the Village’s other turning points.

Landmark status, step by step

• 16 February 2000: National Historic Landmark.
• 23 June 2015: the first city landmark designated for LGBTQ history.
• 24 June 2016: Stonewall National Monument, the first US national monument to LGBTQ rights.
• 2024: the subway station renamed Christopher Street–Stonewall.
• 28 June 2024: the visitor center opens at 51 Christopher Street.

The bar, Christopher Park and the visitor center all sit on Christopher Street, so one stop takes in all three.

Christopher Park

The monument covers Christopher Park, a 0.19-acre space across the street from the bar. The Gay Liberation sculpture was placed there in 1992.

The visitor center

The Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center occupies 3,700 square feet at 51 Christopher Street and is free. Opening hours and programmes are published by the National Park Service on nps.gov.

The bar today

The Stonewall Inn still operates as a bar. It is a working business, so visiting inside follows its own hours; the facade, the park and the visitor center are the parts open to anyone.

Getting there

The 1 train stops at Christopher Street–Stonewall, a short walk away. From Washington Square Park it is about half a mile, 10 minutes on foot. PATH trains from New Jersey also stop at Christopher Street. The getting-there page lists the other lines.

Walks that stop here

Two of the six walks stop at the Stonewall Inn: the two-hour history walk, which ends its route here, and the ghost walk after dark. Both are capped at 10 people and guided in English. Sharon (UK) mentioned the mix of culture, history, politics and the arts on the history walk.

Around Christopher Street

A few steps away, Cafe Society at 1 Sheridan Square opened in 1938 as the first racially integrated nightclub in the United States; Billie Holiday first sang “Strange Fruit” there in 1939. Gay Street, a one-block curve between Christopher Street and Waverly Place, takes its name from an 18th-century family, not the modern sense of the word. Jefferson Market Library, where Mae West was tried in 1927, stands at Sixth Avenue and West 10th Street. The ghost walk links all three with the Stonewall Inn after dark.

What the monument does not charge

Nothing on the monument is ticketed: Christopher Park, the sculpture and the visitor center are free. The only paid way to see the street is a guided walk, and the current price for that shows in the booking widget below.

Katy (UK) noted that Cameron, a ghost-walk guide, backed the stories with newspaper clippings, and Aurelie (France) found that walk easy to follow in simple English.

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