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Gay Street, another of the Village's crooked lanes, runs from Waverly Place north to Christopher Street. Author Ruth McKenney, whose book My Sister Eileen was adapted for stage and screen, and radical attorney William Kunstler have lived on this short street. Gay Street is either named for an early 19th Century landowner in the area named Gay, as Henry Moscow (of The Street Book) says, citing a reference to it in NYC Common Council minutes of April 23, 1827; Sanna Feirstein, of Naming New York, says it is named for Sidney Harold Gay, managing director of the New-York Times (which spelt it that way when he was there). Since Sidney Gay was alive between 1814-1888, I'd say Moscow's is probably the more likely scenario.

	The Street Book, Henry Moscow, Hagstrom 1978 BUY this book at Amazon.COM
	Naming New York, Sanna Feirstein, NYU Press 2001 BUY this book at Amazon.COM
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