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GMHC 35TH ANNIVERSARY

Gay Men’s Health Crisis / GMHC marked their 35th Anniversary with a walk to the Memorial

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ACT UP 30 YEAR MARCH AND RALLY

On March 30, 2016, the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power/ACT UP, held its 30th Anniversary March and Rally at the Memorial.

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Final Design Unveiled for NYC Aids Memorial

Designed by Studio a+i, a Brooklyn-based architecture firm, the memorial will feature an 18-foot steel canopy that will serve as a gateway to the new St. Vincent’s Hospital Park at the intersection of West 12th Street and Greenwich Avenue in the West Village.

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NEW YORK MAGAZINE: A Park to Remember a Plague

In April 2010, an urban planner named Paul Kelterborn read an article in this magazine about the doomed St. Vincent’s Hospital, where so many AIDS patients died in the early years of the epidemic. Since there was no major AIDS memorial in a city that had lost more than 100,000 people, wrote David France, “the bland sarcophagus along Seventh Avenue holds that place.”

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GAY CITY NEWS: AIDS Commemorative Park Plan Alive

The campaign to create an AIDS memorial park in a triangle site adjacent to the former St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village received a conditional green light from the local community board as it forwarded its recommendation for the parcel of land to the City Planning Commission.

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GAY CITY NEWS: A Promising Compromise on Village AIDS Memorial

As New York prepares to mark World AIDS Day and remember the more than 100,000 of our fellow city residents who died as a result of HIV infection, Manhattan’s Community Board 2 has taken a responsible step in keeping open the prospects for a commemorative park to honor the battle against the epidemic.

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NEW YORK TIMES: A Park, a Memorial, a Debate

The first article on the proposed New York City AIDS emorial discusses the earliest plans to refurbish the site as neighborhood park and memorial to those who lost their lives to AIDS and to the New Yorkers who cared for them before they died.

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