135 Christopher Street

West Village | built 1911

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1911
Jardine, Kent & Hill design a four-story brick loft building at 135 Christopher Street
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The 135 Christopher Street Corporation commissioned the architects Jardine, Kent & Hill to design this four-story brick loft building, erected in 1911. The 1969 landmark report praised its careful brickwork and symmetrical windows, saying the building has a monumentality that its small scale belies.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1978
The gay restaurant and bar Trilogy opens at 135 Christopher Street
Trilogy operated at 135 Christopher Street from 1978 until about 1987, during the years when Christopher Street was a hub of gay nightlife. The Advocate described its dining room as full of handsome men who rarely looked at their plates. A photograph from fall 1981 shows gay men outside the Christopher Street PATH station, with Trilogy just visible at the right edge of the frame.
Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
1999
Chi Chiz opens at 135 Christopher Street and draws Black gay men and transgender people
After Trilogy, the space at 135 Christopher Street held Chi Chiz, which operated from 1999 to 2011. The bar was popular with Black gay men and transgender people. The NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project, which wrote up Christopher Street's gay businesses for the Greenwich Village Historic District's National Register documentation, names it alongside Trilogy as an earlier occupant of the address.
Source: NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project

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