The story
Greenwich Village's most popular 1950s lesbian bar where women risked arrest just for dancing together.
Everything that was here
- 1955–1966
Sea ColonyBar
Greenwich Village's most popular 1950s lesbian bar where women risked arrest just for dancing together.
See the map in 1956 →
Connected places
White Horse Tavern
New York, NY
Greenwich Village
Kettle of Fish
New York, NY
Greenwich Village
Village Vanguard
New York, NY
Greenwich Village
Explore the full web of connections on the map.
Nearby history
Village Vanguard
178 Seventh Avenue South · 310 m away
Max Gordon opened the Vanguard in 1935, and it settled into a triangle-shaped basement that had been a speakeasy called
Florent
69 Gansevoort Street · 361 m away
White Horse Tavern
534 Hudson Street · 506 m away
The White Horse was a longshoremen's bar from 1880 until the early 1950s, when Dylan Thomas and other writers started dr
Stonewall Inn
15 Christopher Street · 529 m away
Café Society
1 Sheridan Square, New York, NY 10014 · 705 m away
Chumley's
86 Bedford Street · 713 m away
Know something about Sea Colony? An old photo, a date, a memory of what stood here before?
Add it on the map