New St. Marks Baths

Gay bathhouse in New York, United States

The New St. Marks Baths

Site of the bathhouse in 2009, then occupied by Kim's Video and Music

Former names| The Saint Marks Baths
General information
Type| Gay bathhouse
Location| Manhattan, New York City, New York
Address| 6 St. Marks Place
Country| United States
Coordinates| 40°43′45″N 73°59′22″W﻿ / ﻿40.729218°N 73.98949°W﻿ / 40.729218; -73.98949
Opened| 1913 (1913)
Renovated| 1979
Closed| December 9, 1985 (1985-12-09)
Owner| Bruce Mailman
Other information
Facilities| private rooms, sauna

The New St. Marks Baths was a gay bathhouse at 6 St. Marks Place in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City from 1979 to 1985. It claimed to be the largest gay bath house in the world.[citation needed]

The Saint Marks Baths opened in the location in 1913. Through the 1950s, it operated as a Turkish bath catering to Russian-Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side. In the 1950s, it began to have a homosexual clientele at night. In the 1960s, it became exclusively gay.[1]

In 1979, the bathhouse was refurbished, and the name was changed to the New Saint Marks Baths. In 1981, the neighboring building was purchased, with plans to expand.[2]

The AIDS epidemic caused some activists such as Larry Kramer to urge its closing.[citation needed]. In October 1985, an emergency resolution updating the New York Sanitary Code (10 NYCRR) § 24.2, authorized the New York City Department of Health to close any facilities "in which high risk sexual activity takes place."[3] Despite providing information on AIDS and condoms to all patrons, the New St. Mark's Baths was closed permanently on December 7, 1985.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Leap, William (1999). Public sex gay space. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-10691-2.
2. ^ Moore, Patrick (2004). Beyond shame: reclaiming the abandoned history of radical gay sexuality. Boston: Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-7956-1.
3. ^ "Court Upholds Power to Close Gay Bathhouses - City of New York v New St. Mark's Baths, 130 Misc. 2d 911, 497 N.Y.S.2d 979 (1986)". Biotech.law.lsu.edu. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
4. ^ Purnick, Joyce (December 7, 1985). "City Shuts a Bathhouse as Site of 'Unsafe Sex'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-09-13.

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