Officials will schedule a public hearing to discuss the bar’s landmark status this fall, according to Time Out. “This is a tremendously important step toward conferring much-needed recognition and protection upon this site, which played such an enormously important role in the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement,” said Andrew Berman, executive director of the Village Preservation, a local group that’s been pushing to make Julius’ a city landmark for close to a decade. It’s the first step in becoming a landmark. The Landmark Preservation Commission added to its Tuesday calendar the historic West Village bar - open at 159 West 10th Street since 1930 and served as a site of protest in the years before the Stonewall Riots. Julius’, one of New York’s oldest gay bars, is on track to become a city landmark.
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