206 Thompson Street

also 151 Bleecker Street | Greenwich Village | built 1903

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1. 1903

   Israel Lippman has Bernstein & Bernstein build a six-story tenement with stores

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   The architects Bernstein & Bernstein designed 206 Thompson Street in 1902-03 for owner Israel Lippman. It is a six-story Renaissance Revival tenement in brick and terra cotta with a commercial ground floor, and it shares a tax lot with the matching building at 151 Bleecker Street. The same firm designed the next building along, at 208 Thompson Street.

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

2. 1963

   Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer meet at Portofino, an Italian restaurant at 206 Thompson Street

   Portofino, at this address from about 1959 to 1975, was an Italian restaurant and discreet meeting place where lesbians gathered on Friday evenings. Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer met there in 1963. They married in Canada in 2007, and after Spyer's death Windsor sued over the federal tax bill on her inheritance, which led the Supreme Court in 2013 to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act.

   “Portofino, 206 Thompson Street (c. 1959-75), was an Italian restaurant that was a discreet meeting place frequented on Friday evenings by lesbians.”

   Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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• 208 Thompson Street1 entry
• 149 Bleecker Street3 entries
• 151 Bleecker Street1 entry
• The Bitter End147 Bleecker Street | 12 entries
• 210 Thompson Street1 entry
• Webb House145 Bleecker Street | 6 entries

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