News & Press
NBC NEWS: New York City AIDS Memorial Honors 'Community of Heroes'
The NYC AIDS Memorial recognizes those who lost their lives due to HIV/AIDS and the activists who helped change the trajectory of the epidemic.
Please join us on Thu, Dec 1 at 11am for the public dedication
The public dedication marks the culmination of over five years of planning and development to build the memorial, which involved significant private and public support.
Installation of the New York City AIDS Memorial Begins
Construction of the New York City AIDS Memorial is now underway at the recently named New York City AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle.
GMHC 35TH ANNIVERSARY
Gay Men’s Health Crisis / GMHC marked their 35th Anniversary with a walk to the Memorial
The New York City AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle
We deeply appreciate the decision by Mayor de Blasio and Parks Commissioner Silver to officially name the park “The New York City AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle.”
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.
Help us in naming the new park “NEW YORK CITY AIDS MEMORIAL PARK”
New York City is going to officially name the park once memorial construction is completed and the site is turned over. We want to have a say in its naming.
THE ART NEWSPAPER: Jenny Holzer draws on Walt Whitman for AIDS memorial
The US artist Jenny Holzer, who is known for her LED light pieces and truisms carved into stone, is contributing to a new app linked to a memorial in New York commemorating the men, women and children who have died from HIV/AIDS.
Governor Cuomo Marks World AIDS Day as New York State Continues Progress Toward Ending the Epidemic
Governor Commits $500,000 to Help Fund the New York City AIDS Memorial
GAY CITY NEWS: Buoyantly, Urgently, AIDS Memorial Advocates Press for Funds
In an atmosphere of both celebration and anxiety, a capital campaign for the New York City AIDS Memorial was formally launched at a March 27 press conference.
NEW YORK TIMES: AIDS Memorial Loses Plants and Gains Supporters
The New York City AIDS Memorial planned for Greenwich Village has emerged sleeker, lighter, more sculptural and a lot less verdant after months of scrutiny by city agencies.
Final Design for NYC AIDS Memorial Unveiled
It all began with a question: Why didn’t New York City have a proper memorial to mark the many who had experienced HIV and AIDS in the city over the decades.
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.
NEW YORK OBSERVER: AIDS Memorial Divides Village People: Tiny Triangle Tears Community Between Reflection and Recreation
“I think it’s a lovely idea,” Scott said. “It had a huge impact on the gay community, on the neighborhood, on the entire city, and it has never been properly commemorated. This would be the perfect place to remember those who were lost.”
NEW YORK OBSERVER: A Forest Grows in the Village: Studio a+i’s AIDS Memorial Design Selected
New York and the world observed World AIDS Day on Saturday, and for many it was a bittersweet day – one of solemnness and hope.
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.”
New York City’s AIDS Memorial Park Design Competition Jury Announces Winners
Team of New York Architects Takes First Place; Jury Selects Three Runners-Up and 12 Honorable Mentions
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.
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.
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.