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Anvil

History

This small, three-story triangular building, along the West Side Road at West 14th Street, was built in 1908 as the Strand Hotel. The Strand had a café and saloon, and its rooms were rented only to men, largely sailors from the trans-Atlantic steamships at the adjacent Chelsea Piers, and other waterfront workers. This section of the Hudson River was then the busiest waterfront in the world.

By the early 1970s, the building had get known as the Hideaway Motel. In June 1972, Danny’s Bar opened in the Hideaway, which was one of four gay bars in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and New Jersey that operated under the name “Danny’s.” An ad listed dancing and amusement here. Gay Scene in January 1973 noted that it was then a leather bar established as the Meatrack. The same newspaper reported in April 1974 that it had a fresh name – the Anvil – and in May 1975 that it had live shows on Saturdays and Sundays. The New York Post later reported that the Anvil was run by the Liberation Social Club, incorporated in 1976, that the owner of tape was Alan Goldstein of Queens, and that it was briefly

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